We see violent and disturbing images every day. Police-brutality videos are now commonplace on social media. We are suffering from an opioid epidemic that is destroying families. And at the perils of the current government, our very democracy is at stake. We are in deep trouble on many levels. I am writing this letter because […]

I’m writing in support of Irving Williams’ recent letter regarding the “capture” photos of John D. Williams (no relation), the suspect in the fatal shooting of Cpl. Eugene Cole of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. The photos I’ve seen have only made my heart hurt more for the man. (It was already hurting for the […]

I am beginning to be dismayed by the sensational turn that the paper seems to be taking, most recently the coverage of the apprehension of John D. Williams, suspected of fatally shooting Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Eugene Cole, in the April 29 Maine Sunday Telegram. While I understand that this is an important story, […]

Editorial cartoonist Steve Meyers’ attempt to vilify U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (April 29) was deplorable, vicious and divisive. I am amazed at the wasted energy expended by your news organization to demonize Mr. Poliquin. Do you not understand that not only is he not in your readership’s district, but also that 99 percent of his […]

In response to Walter J. Eno’s discounting of Mindy Woerter’s criticism of the Hyde Amendment (Another View, April 29): He seems to ignore one point she makes in her op-ed relating her own painful experience: For poor women, unlike her, the Hyde Amendment is especially cruel because they do not have the same financial resources […]

When the nuclear deal with Iran was brought forward in August 2015, Sen. Angus King called a snap meeting in Portland to push it (although not for constitutionally required Senate ratification). The University of Southern Maine forum included only supporters of the agreement on the stage, and it effectively drove public opinion in the direction […]