I am responding to “Commentary: War makes us safer and richer” (May 4). Let’s begin with the fact that the opinion piece barely touches on the human toll that offsets whatever “progress” has come with wars. “Safer”? This is a conclusion not well supported by the chaos and carnage now taking place in many parts […]

Re: “Open Season: PAC explains Cutler’s early leap to TV” (May 4): Betsy Smith, head of the independent gubernatorial candidate’s Campaign for Maine, is absolutely incorrect when she states that the reason people aren’t donating to Eliot Cutler is that they’re “hesitant at this point to throw their support behind the candidate who they really […]

University of Maine officials were quick to point out that the $113,800 cost of buying out the contract of the dismissed men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward came from privately raised funds in university President Paul Ferguson’s discretionary account. At a time when the university is trying to find ways to cover a $38 million budget […]

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