Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s March 15 column, “Wasting money and killing children, for what?” was one of the best explorations of the president’s war on Iran I have read. Both empathetic and angry, it wasted no time with the disclaimers that are too often included in condemnations of the decision to take our country to war. It […]

I recently met Hannah Pingree, candidate for governor, at a meet and greet in Portland. I came away thinking: “How could you have a more sincere, trustworthy, service-oriented candidate than Hannah?” She spoke at length on issues confronting Mainers. She has an impressive track record, 25 years of addressing the issues we all face here: affordable […]

Victoria Hugo-Vidal (“America’s number crunchers confirm what my generation already knows,” March 22) seems to believe that the federal government is only now beginning to recognize the financial stresses on the Social Security and Medicare systems. Is she so inwardly focused that she has not been aware that the trustees of these systems have been […]