In today’s society, people expect children and young adults to attend school, study hard and educate themselves to become our future workforce, community and state leaders, but many adults don’t take the time to study and educate themselves on who will be running for public office. We will be electing a new governor this fall. […]

As I flipped through TV stations, hoping for an update on the 34th school shooting of 2018 (according to the Gun Violence Archive) but mostly finding commentary on the royal wedding, I couldn’t help but fear that my community could be next. Throughout my career, advocating for sensible gun laws both here in Maine and […]

Could the increase of Islesboro’s ferry ticket prices be Gov. LePage’s “Bridgegate”? Don’t be too quick to scoff at such a notion. Let’s not forget that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and LePage are cut from the same cloth. Remember how Islesboro was so influential in the fight to preserve its neighboring Sears Island, […]

It was refreshing to read that 31 folks, including about a dozen high school students, recently testified in Augusta at a Department of Environmental Protection hearing. They were asking for much tougher greenhouse-gas emissions standards in the coming years here in Maine. We are too jaded these days, too numbed by dysfunction, too timid to […]

As a citizen directly in the middle of Maine, reading the Portland Sunday paper is my once-a-week treat. However, almost a month ago, I was reading your lengthy article on the educational dispute that was occurring in the Scarborough school system and was appalled to see your use in the headline and in the body […]

My Central Maine Power bills are on the automatic payment plan. The monthly amount increased when a family member lived with me and then decreased accordingly when he moved on. Yesterday, I received notice that my monthly bill has increased by 100 percent. My usage has decreased during the past 18 months. I heat with […]

On the front page of the May 13 Maine Sunday Telegram, there was a story about a young boy who was placed for adoption by nuns at the Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Ireland. The article quotes a genealogist at the Maine Irish Heritage Center in Portland, who makes a statement that is scurrilous. Speaking […]

You know how your newspaper felt compelled to move the “Doonesbury” comic strip to the editorial pages because its contents were considered so political? I suggest that you please move anything written by our governor, especially last Sunday’s “Put blame for failed leadership where it belongs – with the majority” (Page D3), to the comics […]

Gov. LePage took to the Maine Sunday Telegram’s Opinion page last week to blast House Speaker Sara Gideon’s legislative leadership. All of Augusta’s ills he blames on Speaker Gideon, reserving no responsibility for himself and his party. Yet a critical sentence in the governor’s attack is revealing. Gov. LePage wrote: “Speaker Gideon would rather throw […]