The U.S. embassy in Dakar recently rejected visa applications for several members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team. The team had been scheduled to train in the U.S. Senegal is also among the 36 nations that the United States is considering adding to a travel ban. These visa rejections were wrong, just as those travel bans […]

Sen. Collins needs to hear from us. I think she believes that we all have rights, with no exceptions. But her political party has been taken over by people who want to suppress the rights of everyone but rich, white, cisgendered, male, American citizens. They want to cut services for the poor to give themselves […]

This is a response to the June 17 op-ed “Maine’s congressional leaders must step up to stop Trump.” The best way to stop President Donald Trump is for Democrats to take back the U.S. House and Senate in the 2026 election. Democrats lost the 2024 election because they didn’t pay enough attention to working class […]

Years ago, while running an Army newspaper in Vietnam, I saw that we were coming up on our unit’s birthday and I sent a Telex to the Pentagon suggesting that they send a birthday greeting to the troops that we could run in the paper. They agreed and asked me to draft it, which I […]

Many people, myself included, stop listening when they hear a string of large numbers. Despite this, it would be wise if Americans would consider what the “big, beautiful bill” will do to our lives via the national debt. Currently our national debt, at $36.2 trillion, is so large that each American would owe $230,000 if […]

Words matter! I was stunned by the choice of the word “collide” in the headline of your June 19 story about the Prismatic Ball held in Portland. I rushed to read the story, thinking there had been some conflict among the organizers of the event. After reading the article carefully, I realized that I had […]

A developer plans to build two three-story apartment buildings — 50 units total — at 1584 Forest Ave., a 1.5-acre piece of property behind Moran’s Market and along Talbot School Road. The project, Belfort Landing, would dramatically affect Belfort Street, a quiet residential cul-de-sac behind the site. To make it work, the developer intends to […]