To the editor: It registered like an 8 on the Richter scale or line a Category 5 hurricane. “I will not seek re-election,” Sen. Olympia Snowe reported. She said what we all know. Washington is broken. A 33-year career public servant has come to realize that Congress has become polarized and nothing to help is […]

To the editor: Domestic violence seems to be very much in the news lately. I asked a local police officer, in his estimation, how many of their domestic violence calls involved alcohol. He said his guess would be at least 75 percent. Along with domestic violence, we see death on the highway, snowmobile accidents, boating […]

To the editor: When the Obama administration’s health-care financing plan was signed into law, President Obama and Congress promised that funds under the new law would not cover abortions. This has now been proved to be empty rhetoric. Why? Because the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has mandated that under the health care […]

To the editor: Rob Peabody worries that those who oppose construction of an Amtrak layover facility at Brunswick West will damage downtown retailers. He would do well to marshal facts rather than resort to his own fear mongering. Brunswick has been told that only the facility prevents five to seven trains per day, that noise […]

The only question I have when it comes to President Barack Obama and Israel is whether he is the most pro-Israel president in history or just one of the most. Why? Because the question of whether Israel has the need and the right to pre-emptively attack Iran as it develops a nuclear potential is one […]