Re: “U.S. Cyber Command preparing to counter Russia” (Dec. 26, Page A1): The Washington Post article on Russian computer system hacking and countermeasures by the U.S. offers clever literary touches but little actual information. Instead of telling us exactly what messages are directed our way to influence what voting machine lever we pull, or what […]

Being a registered Democrat but an independent voter, I find both parties being childish! First, the Republicans in the House played the “This process is unfair” card! Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer are playing “We want it our way!” card! When will these elected officials grow up? The Democrats, […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Democrats are causing Washington obstruction,” by Catherine Ferrell (Dec. 17, Page A4): It is not the Democrats who are obstructing work in Washington. It is the Republicans. And more than that, one Republican in particular: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky. The Democratic-led House of Representative has passed […]

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in Maine about Canadian hydropower. Maine citizens have the right to know the facts about hydropower, not a list of misleading statements. I’m a climate scientist and have measured the emissions from hydropower reservoirs in Québec for 25 years. Hydropower development does create carbon emissions, but these emissions […]

Watching the House impeachment hearings sickened me with a realization: We live in two Americas. Not just rich versus poor or black versus white – those are worrisome enough. No, I am talking about fact versus gaslight. This trend threatens our democracy. In democracy scholar Larry Diamond’s most recent book, “Ill Winds,” he writes: “Some […]

I’ve learned a few things from watching “The Schiff Show”: The Democrats are smarter than everyone else in the whole world, and we need term limits for every politician on a town, city, county, state and federal level. We have term limits for governors and the president – why not for the rest of these […]

I am writing to express my strong feelings of distaste for the Kennebec Journal article published on the front page of the local section of the Press Herald on Dec. 11: “Missing woman struggles with mental health, medical records show” (Page C1). In both the photo and the article, but more so the article, I […]

In a recent letter to the editor (Dec. 17), Don Loprieno stated that there is no need for recreational trapping, in that animal populations will self-regulate. A number of years ago, leghold traps, commonly used by recreational trappers in Massachusetts, were banned, and body-gripping traps were restricted through a statewide ballot initiative. Within five years […]