The three Minneapolis police officers who said and did nothing while officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck and killed him have themselves been rightly indicted for aiding and abetting a murder. What, then, should we do with Republican members of Congress, who for 3½ years have said and done nothing while […]

Who doesn’t like a surprise? But not a surprise ER bill. The good news? As of March 18, Maine consumers are protected from surprise emergency medical bills! In an amazingly quick response to the desperate issue, on Feb. 13, L.D. 2105, An Act To Protect Consumers from Surprise Emergency Medical Bills, was presented in the […]

I was shocked and dismayed to read Staff Writer Deirdre Fleming’s article “ATV sales riding high as Mainers long to get outdoors” (July 26, Page A1). If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, the one sure lesson is that the scaling back of human activity has lowered pollution levels. All-terrain vehicles are not good […]

After publicly supporting Sen. Susan Collins six years ago in her most-successful re-election campaign, the Maine Council of Machinists, which includes two unions at Bath Iron Works, has recently abandoned their electoral support of Maine’s senior senator in favor of a newcomer. Those who follow Washington politics know that political muscle in Congress, especially in […]

Orlando E. Delogu, in his Maine Voices (“BIW workers are pushed to settle, but no one’s making demands of General Dynamics,” Aug. 4), fails to mention the onerous work rules insisted upon by the unions. Of course Ingalls in Mississippi is a less expensive place to build ships for the Navy. At Bath Iron Works […]

Ranked-choice voting is a great way to vote. The California town of Oakhurst developed an even better approach. Candidates for mayor campaign by raising funds for local nonprofits, and each dollar raised counts as one vote. The candidate who raises the most wins the election. This may seem like a frivolous idea during these somber […]

I am appalled by the false history peddled by Portland Health and Human Services Director Kristen Dow in her Aug. 6 op-ed regarding the India Street Public Health Center. She wrote that the clinic “has never been in danger of fully closing.” This is completely false. In 2016 City Manager Jon Jennings proposed closing the […]

Are you sick and tired of seeing both Sara Gideon and Susan Collins on TV over and over again? Something needs to be done to limit the contributions given by large corporations and donors. We have three more months of this rhetoric. I don’t know about you, but I have seen enough of this. Let’s […]