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Letter: In all situations, character matters

In Sunday’s Jan. 7 print edition of the paper, on facing pages (A10 and A11), are two interesting headlines and stories: On Page A10, “He was so well-loved and he loved everyone,” the story of a young man, Ahmir Jolliff, who was killed at his school by a 17-year-old. We don’t know the 17-year-old’s motive, […]

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Letter: Bellows defies decades of legal precedent

The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to remove former President Donald Trump’s name from the Republican primary ballot is beyond belief. I am not a lawyer, but five minutes of research revealed that the long-held legal precedent of “innocent until proven guilty” was first enshrined in American legal practice in the 1894 […]

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Letter: Mourning the loss of reasonable discourse

In Mr. Moore’s opinion piece, “Censorship must be challenged; Question 2 must be challenged” (Jan. 7), he ignores the problems raised by Central Maine Power’s and Versant’s barrage of misinformation and scare tactics that were funded by the two companies. There is no longer a requirement that both sides of an argument be fairly presented […]