“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” Those are the unimaginable and soulless words that came from the mouth of the heartless and incompetent current president of the United States. It’s hard to take any words as being true when they come from his mouth. He’s an untrustworthy serial liar. In this case, what the elected […]

Reading William Kelley’s letter last Monday (“No longer proud to be an American,” June 1) made me very sad. I understand where he’s coming from. I am ashamed of our government. I am frustrated that no one can stop the corruption, callousness and destruction that is happening in our Capitol. It makes me physically ill […]

Our state is struggling financially, yet we have state agencies purchasing land? (“Maine buys second PFAS-contaminated farm,” May 22) People need to consider the fact that this PFAS “catastrophe” might be engineered. When they brought Erin Brockovich to Maine to run “town halls,” the whole operation looked like a publicity stunt to me (and many […]

Every Republican candidate’s campaign highlights how each of them is going to cut waste and fraud from our existing government assistance programs. Let’s look at the facts: Maine is a poor state with a low per-capita income. Our citizens work very hard to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, […]

In Maine, we are quick to help a neighbor and slow to ask for help ourselves. As a caregiver, I have learned that asking is not weakness — it is how families survive. My husband, Jesse, served eight years in the U.S. Army, with deployments to Afghanistan, Ukraine and Djibouti. He was medically retired in […]