I am sick of the out-of-state, dark money, negative political ads being run by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sara Gideon‘s supporters. My favorite radio station hardly has time to play two songs between them. They grossly misrepresent facts and pollute our airwaves. I plan to register my protest by voting for Republican Sen. Susan Collins […]

I’m writing to say, “We need a Savage to fight for Maine in the U.S, Senate,” and to thank you for sponsoring the debate on Friday evening. I felt that Green Independent Lisa Savage stood out clearly as the most decisive and forthright of the four candidates. She also was the less rancorous and divisive, […]

I am one of those “suburban housewives” Donald Trump thinks love him, but this suburban housewife doesn’t. In fact I am very scared right now, and it’s because of him. My family – like all of us in this country – still can’t all be together because of COVID-19. Had the president taken the lead […]

I’m writing to discuss something that is important to me. Hopefully it’s also important to other Mainers and Americans. President Trump’s treatment of military families, veterans, prisoners of war and Americans killed in action is deeply troubling, and leads veterans like me to question his fitness to lead our nation. I’m inherently skeptical about accusations […]

In the editorial on the death of Jesse Harvey (“Our View: Advocate’s death is a tragic reminder,” Sept. 10), the Editorial Board summarizes his position on drug use, called “harm reduction.” This is “a public health approach to substance use that meets people ‘where they are’ in their recovery.” Along these lines, the Editorial Board […]

As a 67-year-old white woman, living just a few blocks from the sites of the protests, I would like to assure the visitors who took it upon themselves to arrive in our city on Labor Day weekend, to supposedly protect us from the protesters, that we haven’t needed their protection. The presence of groups of […]

I couldn’t disagree more with Carl Szanton’s advice in his Sept. 8 column to vote for Joe Biden and Susan Collins. In the past, he might have had an argument, but these are not normal times. If Biden and Collins were both to win, the Senate would likely remain in Republican hands, which Szanton seems […]