Re: “Front-runner Sanders faces attacks in Democrats’ clash on debate stage” (Feb. 26, Page A3): Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is taking heat for “comments expressing admiration for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s push for education.” In 1959, I was a freshman at West Philadelphia Catholic Girls High School. We had a student from Cuba for […]

Re: “Our View: State should not retreat on Maine women’s health” (Feb. 20): Affordable health care for Maine women is of extreme importance, but when human life, which is divinely created in the womb, is destroyed by abortion, that is not health care. Approximately 62 percent of Mainers do not want to see tax funds […]

Last year the Maine Legislature enacted a law requiring students in public and private schools to have vaccinations unless a medical professional finds it to be a danger to the student’s health. These vaccinations protect against mumps, measles, chickenpox, polio, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. Now we have Question 1 – a proposal to […]

Do you wish to allow an estimated 9,000 students educational access, and not strip $80-plus million worth of funding in Maine? That’s Question 1. If you don’t want to mess with the students, schools, parents and communities, you’ll vote “yes.” Don’t be fooled, this law isn’t about health. To be clear, exemptions have existed since […]

Here are three important reasons to support Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary: • Health care. We deserve to live in a country where health care is a right, not a privilege, and where people do not die as a result of lack of access (tens of thousands per year) or go bankrupt because […]

As longtime owners of a child care center in Maine, we applaud the Maine legislators, physicians, nurses and others responsible for putting Public Law 154 on the books. This law states that all children who enroll in schools in Maine must be immunized. The only exception for a child not to be immunized is for […]

My vote’s for Bernie Sanders in the March 3 Democratic primary. Bernie plans to strengthen our society with programs to keep us all healthy (slash prescription drug costs; “Medicare for All”; reduce climate change); sheltered (investment in affordable housing); educated (nutrition for scholars; free public college), and safe (reduce climate change; shutter nuclear plants; universal […]

In our first-ever primary March 3, Maine voters have the opportunity to vote for a progressive pragmatist who get things done: Sen. Amy Klobuchar. As a senator working in a polarized partisan environment, Amy has worked effectively with both parties to pass more than 100 bills. Amy has progressive principles but doesn’t allow “the perfect […]

The “Reject Big Pharma” campaign promoted by anti-vaccine vigilantes is, as Gov. Mills has rightly called out, a manipulative deflection designed to activate perceived voter fears of corporations trampling our parental rights. The overall campaign is not only inaccurate, but also insulting, as I don’t at all share the feelings of victimization it presumes. I […]