The only reason Susan Collins has an approval rate in the 30s is older generations’ leftover goodwill from her first 20 years in office. Like many young people, I came into real political consciousness with the 2016 presidential election. At no point since then has Susan Collins done anything to earn the youth vote. Young […]

The website Open Secrets provides a telling review of who is pulling the strings of power that suspend Sen. Susan Collins. Two of the top five donors over the past five years are major hedge funds with strong, politically active leaders. Did you wonder why Susan Collins threw her support behind the Republican-sponsored tax bill […]

Columnist Jim Fossel’s “Democrats fail leadership test in Augusta” (Aug. 2) fails the test of reasonableness. He claims, without substantiation, that many bills that might be considered in a special session would be “completely ridiculous and unnecessary in normal times” and that even debating them during the pandemic would be “absurd.” I wonder which bills […]

When I met Susan Collins, in October 2016, I was excited to speak with one of America’s well-known moderate senators. Instead, I was struck by her refusal to directly answer my policy questions. Over the last few years, I have become very disheartened, as I have witnessed Sen. Collins let the people of Maine down. […]

Having Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler visit Portland to talk about protecting the environment is like having David Duke visit to talk about racial justice (“Lobstermen catch break on diesel engine standards,” Aug. 20). After Wheeler demolished long-standing protections for clean water and clean air, and rolled back regulation of methane emissions and automobile […]

Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, who both serve on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently joined in the bipartisan release of the final report from the three-year investigation chaired and run by Senate Republicans on Russian interference in our 2016 election. The New York Times, on Aug. 18, detailed President Trump’s communications […]

I know I’m not alone in tiring of syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts‘ tirades against white people. I read him simply because I like to keep an open mind, but I’m sure that even the people he attempts to represent must agree that his remarks are not representative of how the majority feel. And […]

What is to stop Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from promising that the mail will be delivered on time and, come Election Day, the system collapses? “OOPS!” At best he’ll lose his job in January. Lawrence R. Kaplan Cape Elizabeth