I’ve just read today’s (Sept. 9, Page B6) “Curtis” comic. Topic: Masking vs. not masking. I believe that “comics” imply something light and humorous. When this comic replaced “Mark Trail,” I was in favor of the change for a number of reasons. The “Curtis” strip was a good change. However, it is morphing into something […]

In Maine, and around the country, overworked health care workers are bitterly bracing to be fired from a job they love in an industry desperate for manpower because the tyranny of an out-of-control medical fascist state won’t accept “no” as an answer. Our jobs directly affect the health of society’s elderly, sick and disabled. We […]

Here in the U.S. and around the world, abortion rights are being challenged and attempts are being made to eliminate access to abortion services. It is my belief that the real way to eliminate the need for most abortions is to eliminate sexism, rape, incest, coercion, inadequate access to birth control and birth control failures. […]

I want to address our ungraceful exit from Afghanistan and the Sept. 9 Maine Voices op-ed commenting on this issue (“Twenty years after 9/11, ‘unthinkable’ looks a lot different”). I do this as an Army veteran, a retired physician and a war orphan whose father was killed by friendly fire during World War II. But […]

There are plenty of controversies in medicine where physicians disagree with each other. Vaccination against COVID-19 is not one of them. As soon as the vaccine was available late last year, every physician I know got vaccinated, as did I and all of our families once they could. I have practiced medicine in our community […]

Re: Robert Skoglund’s commentary “The humble Farmer: I’m not exactly what you might call a happy camper” (Sept. 11, Page A11): I must confess, he’s not my favorite personality writer. Sometimes I think he sounds a bit “full of himself,” as the saying goes. But I often at least skim his columns, and today he […]

In his Sept. 5 letter (“COVID vaccine is useless, and Nemitz should know it”), Peter Petersen accuses columnist Bill Nemitz of promulgating what Petersen calls “the big lie” that the COVID vaccine works. Petersen comes to a contrary conclusion by noting that Israel and the U.S. have similar infection rates per 100,000 population despite a […]

For two decades, we’ve listened to politicians offering their thoughts and prayers to victims of tragic events, fixable events, that by now should be our No.1 priority. California is burning, with terrible droughts in the Southwest. Hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger, as witnessed by Sandy, Katrina and now Ida, destroying cities from New Orleans […]