I am saddened that the Republican Party, for the most part, has chosen to embrace and perpetuate the lie that the 2020 presidential election was somehow stolen from former President Donald J. Trump. The Republican leadership has gone as far as to threaten their own people with censure and loss of committee assignments for not […]

Thank you for your Aug. 3 editorial, “Our View: Voting Rights Act needs attention now,” on the desperate need to protect voting rights and election administration from extreme Republican legislatures and governors. We are truly in danger of losing our democracy. Thank you also for pointing out the sorry role of our own Sen. Susan […]

Tarlan Ahmadov, president of the Azerbaijan Society of Maine, publicly questions United States aid to Armenia (Letter to the editor, July 31). He doesn’t mention that on Sept. 27, 2020, during a worldwide pandemic, Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked attack on the civilian Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. Banned white phosphorous, cluster munitions and ISIS mercenaries were […]

Workers across the country are hoping for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act; S.420) to be passed in the Senate and then signed by President Biden. If the PRO Act passes, this would be the most significant worker empowerment legislation to happen since the Great Depression. The pandemic exposed conditions tolerated by […]

Recently, Gouldsboro selectmen got an earful about the American Aquafarms project. I have been a lobsterman most of my life and I really don’t like to speak in public. But as I told my wife that night before the meeting, I am going to have to say something, or I will regret it for the […]

We (The People) have done it again by allowing politicians to get involved in something of such national importance as the investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection. Regardless of party affiliation, very few of our elected politicians have the intelligence, fortitude and moral commitment to undertake such a task. I fear that this will have […]

Re: “Among vaccinated, a growing anger at those who resist” (Aug. 1, Page A1): Your article about the divide between COVID-vaccinated Mainers and those who are not includes this, in the ninth paragraph: “Still others are adamant about their constitutional right to remain unvaccinated … . ” To be clear: Nowhere in the United States […]

Neo-fascist fraternities that glorify violence and cater to bigots of all stripes have no place in Portland. Despite that fact, a local Proud Boys chapter has been meeting on a monthly basis at Mathew’s, a dive bar at 133 Free St. A recent article in the Mainer (formerly the Bollard) by Chris Busby sheds light […]