Re: “Collins calls stimulus meeting with Biden ‘very useful’ ” (Feb. 2, Page A1): Staff Writer Eric Russell’s article on the Republican pandemic stimulus package quotes Maine Sen. Susan Collins saying, “We need those funds to be targeted.” Indeed we do, but where was Collins’ concern when she voted for the 2001 Bush tax cut? […]

This year, the Maine Legislature is again considering joining the National Popular Vote Compact. NPV will ensure that all votes for president are counted equally, and will change presidential campaigning, which today focuses exclusively on 12 battleground states. Many Mainers are concerned that small states will lose our influence on elections, should we change how […]

I’ve read some of your reporting regarding where the COVID-19 vaccines stand in Maine. However, I would like to see some reporting on why Maine’s older population of wartime veterans, like myself, can’t seem to get any answers from the local Maine Veterans Affairs clinics, particularly the Lewiston clinic, where I receive all my medical […]

I think it’s great that Maine Medical Center nurses want to unionize. Being able to stand up for what’s right is easier and more effective when one doesn’t have to stand alone. Being a proud union member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 92, since 1978, I can attest to the importance of […]

If you needed a reason either to move to Maine or to be happy you already live here, you need go no further than reading Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard’s front-page article “The race is on” in the Jan. 31 Maine Sunday Telegram. Bouchard describes in some detail the way the rundown Scarborough Downs racetrack was […]

Repeating the folly of its 1960s predecessor, which destroyed Union Station, the City Council rejected the proposed Munjoy Hill Historic District, rationalizing the rejection largely on an uncertain economic impact. In 2007, then-Gov. John Baldacci named Muskie School professor Richard Barringer head of the Governor’s Council on Maine’s Quality of Place. In a report, the […]

I know firsthand how hard it is to challenge the fictional or twisted story of someone more powerful than you. I sympathize with those who have been duped into believing or supporting the fictional story. You trust that person, believe in that person, want to believe that person’s story. It’s easy to get caught up […]

I read with interest the Jan. 31 articles on the difficulty in getting vaccines in Maine (“State sees progress, frustrations in rollout of vaccinations,” Page A1; “Bill Nemitz: Pondering patience in a time of pandemic,” Page B1). In 1947 New York City vaccinated 6 million people in one month for smallpox. We are not doing […]