This week, the residents of Medway and East Millinocket will vote on whether to support the proposed Katahdin Woods and Waters National Park. The votes will not be the deciding factor in the creation of the national park, but they will undoubtedly show that people understand the great benefits it will have for the region. […]

Re: “Everything you need to know about GMOs in one easy place” (May 24): Thank you for the article on the important, but often misunderstood, topic of foods containing genetically modified organisms. Absent from the article is that GMOs were designed, not for the claimed “increased yields,” but so that a corporation can own a […]

Based on Lynn Kuzma’s hyper-adjectival description in her Maine Voices column of June 14 (“USM as ‘metropolitan university’ is a transformation, not a rebranding”), instead of referring to the University of Southern Maine as “Maine’s Metropolitan University,” we might better call it “Maine’s Monument to Meaningless Memes.” Perry H. Clark Cape Elizabeth

It is time that church leaders and the people in Maine stand up to Gov. LePage and demand that General Assistance funds be provided to the people waiting for the federal government to process their paperwork so they can work. To simply tell these men, women and children to starve is not acceptable. For church […]

Re: “USM gets censured over recent faculty cuts” (June 13): The censure of the University of Southern Maine by the American Association of University Professors should cause the University of Maine System Board to fire Chancellor James Page and Vice Chancellor and Treasurer Rebecca Wyke, who were responsible for the damaging decisions at USM that […]

I am happy to see that student debt and the burden it puts on family finances and local economies has been picked up as a presidential race issue. Presidential hopefuls need to think outside the box on how to solve this issue. Here’s one idea that will help some families and the economy as well: […]