Colin Woodard’s thorough and balanced reporting on the lack of aftercare for Maine’s retired racehorses was eyeopening. And the Maine Voices column by Joy Cutrone in support of allocated funding for a retraining center for these animals for new jobs like trail riding or therapy riding was clear and well reasoned. Unbelievably, there isn’t already […]

I am writing in response to Dick Boislard’s letter of Jan. 3. I find it interesting he thinks a vote for Trump is akin to denouncing Christian principles and faith in Jesus. Look at the presidential choices we had: Hillary or Trump? Hillary, who stood for abortion (murder of innocents, a definite breach of 10 […]

As an association, we welcome the recent attention to opioid addiction and treatment in the press. It is a public health epidemic and everyone, including the media, is looking for someone to blame. Physicians are a likely target as we are the ones that not only prescribe pain medication, but also treat addiction. Maine’s opioid […]

I am 59 years old, with a chronic health problem and, like over 20 million other Americans, I am reliant on the health coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare. This week, Congress is poised to repeal the funding for that coverage without having any comparable replacement plan in place. And this time, […]

Your columnist Cynthia Dill has a New Year’s Day prescription for all “the good people of Maine and the United States.” From her high horse of wisdom she tells all 324,118,787 Americans that we should not be spending our time this year “dishing out [our] haughty and condescending disappointment in others.” Is this the same […]