There were two examples of fine journalism in the June 25 Maine Sunday Telegram. First, the initiative to research and report on Sen. Susan Collins’ voting record for federal judicial nominees and reporter Lana Cohen’s effort (“Sen. Susan Collins’ ‘no’ votes on judicial nominees have risen sharply under Biden”), which included all the facts and […]

In the June 25 Maine Sunday Telegram, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip (Page D4) presented a very inaccurate, shameful and insulting moral equivalency, comparing “woke” students being sent to a fictitious college by the present governor of Florida with European Jews during the Holocaust being saved by Oskar Schindler. The college president […]

I would like to applaud billionaire Peter Singer and his Elliott Management Corp. for their care and service to our underpaid, overworked public officials (“Clarence Page: Supreme Court ethics? It’s more than ‘balls and strikes,’ ” June 28). I am sure Justice Samuel Alito greatly appreciated the arrangement for his private travel to Alaska for […]

The Maine Senate recently passed L.D. 1215, a bill to end the sale of flavored tobacco products. Our policymakers should see through the tobacco industry’s smokescreens and advance L.D. 1215 to protect future generations from the lasting harms of tobacco addiction and disease. All tobacco products – cigarettes, chews, dissolvables, snuff or e-cigarettes – come […]

More irresponsible and unbalanced reporting last Sunday, front page and above the fold, no less (“Sen. Susan Collins’ ‘no’ votes on judicial nominees have risen sharply under Biden,” June 25). Attacking Sen. Susan Collins’ voting record without context assumes an ignorant and biased readership. Even so, wouldn’t a comparison with the voting record of our […]

The Downeaster was extended from Portland to Brunswick almost 10 years ago. It’s time to prepare for the next logical step: extending passenger rail service up the Lower Road rail corridor from Brunswick to Augusta and connecting Maine’s capital and one of its largest employment centers with Portland, Maine’s largest city, and Boston, New England’s […]

In New England, the defense cluster provides more than 400,000 jobs, tens of billions of dollars in income for local families and $119 billion in annual economic output. When most people hear about careers in defense, they think about our military members supporting our national security. But industry jobs in manufacturing, cybersecurity, engineering and beyond […]

Reading the political news lately reminds me of a word game my family played over dinner. Each person had to describe a person, place or experience they encountered during the day using a single word they felt best captured its essence. My word for the day is “hypocrisy” because it best describes the Republican Party. […]

In our country, freedom of religion is an individual right; it requires freedom from others’ religions. Your religious beliefs may differ from mine, so we must apply our religions only to ourselves and not force ours upon other people, as that would violate their religion. Please refrain from saying I can’t do something because it’s […]