Charlie Kahill would be an outstanding Cumberland County judge of probate. We were on track teams together at Deering High School and Bowdoin College, and he is now running for that office. I know Charlie as a lifelong friend, experienced attorney and active member of his community in South Portland. Much of his legal practice […]

Lucas St. Clair is our best choice for U.S. Congress from Maine’s 2nd District with all its diverse peoples, climates and economies. Here’s why. We need someone who has lived in both rural and urban Maine, someone who understands the issues of each region. Lucas St. Clair has come up with intelligent and innovative solutions […]

Garrett Mason needs to be Maine’s next governor. I’ve recently had jobs that brought me inside the Maine Senate. It was in this capacity that I saw first-hand the kind of effective legislative leader Garrett Mason is. Even when the video feeds were off, one could see Garrett taking the time to meaningfully engage with […]

I am Donna Loring, tribal elder and former Penobscot Nation representative to the Maine Legislature. I want to give my personal endorsement to state Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross in Maine House District 40. Rachel is a close friend. In the 20 years I’ve known her, she has been a tireless fighter for equal justice, the […]

Congratulations to Maine’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, recently cited as one of the country’s best (May 8). Thirty years ago, however, this was not the case. In the 1989 trial of Dennis Dechaine, the testimony of Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Roy was critical to the state’s theory of the crime, and to Dechaine’s […]

If all the responsible gun owners in America would use their guns to hunt game, we could end the problem of hunger in our country. If they would then store them unloaded and locked up, as is the law in Canada – a country more rural and even more enthusiastic about hunting than ours – […]

Barry Hobbins and Lori Parham write, “The federal Lifeline program is supported entirely by a federal subsidy … Maine taxpayers do not shoulder any cost of the program.” To say that the Maine taxpayers shoulder no cost is misleading. Do Hobbins and Parham not understand where the federal government gets its money? I believe it […]