Please send Sen. Susan Collins a blank check, made out to the voters, to pay for the $1.5 trillion deficit and ask her to adopt all Mainers so that we can use her health plan. Griff Winthrop Wiscasset

Several religious leaders were recently arrested at Sen. Susan Collins’ Portland office, while protesting her support of the tax changes. They objected to steep tax cuts for businesses and more modest cuts for families and individuals. Voters need to consider a few facts, not opinions. First, how many of those objecting read the tax legislation? […]

I’m writing in response to Susan A. Bloomfield’s Dec. 3 letter about Maine Women Magazine. I understand her frustration about our tendency to stereotype women and limit their interests to “shopping, clothing, makeup and ‘style.’ ” But I think Ms. Bloomfield would be pleasantly surprised if she did open the pages of the magazine’s Style […]

On Nov. 26, Eliot Cutler offered a grim perspective of the University of Maine System, to which Stanley Wisniewski responded, in a Dec. 3 Another View guest editorial, correcting some of Cutler’s overly broad and outdated claims. Like Wisniewski, I believe that administrator-faculty collaboration is necessary for moving the university system forward. Misrepresenting the tenure […]

I found the article about the racial transformation of Lewiston’s schools depressing and disturbing (Dec. 10). It’s sad that a working-class city was destroyed, in a very short time, by people with no roots in the community. The State Department provided taxpayer-funded grants to organizations like Episcopal Migration Ministries and Catholic Charities USA, to dump […]

Clarence, are you out there?