I’m not sure there are many policy differences between David Costello and Graham Platner. Costello is a campaign operative and bureaucrat. Platner is a disillusioned and deeply thoughtful soldier. Costello is more mainstream and appears to color inside the lines. Platner is a disrupter who colors outside them. Costello sounds like every unknown who has […]
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Maine voter ID question goes too far
The changes up for consideration are not small — and we should reject them.
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Canadian was right about the US | Letter
I commend Canadian Rhiannon Hamdi for the well-written Aug. 28, 2025 op-ed (“Our neighbors to the south need to look in the mirror”). We Americans need to look closely at what is happening in this country. Regardless of party affiliation, we should all be alarmed at the now-daily news of masked ICE agents roaming our streets; […]
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Are we going in a direction we consider great? | Letter
President Trump claims that his falling out with Jeffery Epstein occurred because, as Trump said of Epstein, “He stole people that worked for me.” Trump considers people to be a commodity that can be stolen, he considers people to be a commodity owned. The presidential administration is full of human traffickers. They are ordering masked […]
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Trump’s trying to build a private army with tax dollars | Letter
I have watched, with disgust and anger, as the current president works at normalizing the presence of armed, anonymous agents and military forces on the streets of peaceful American cities according to his dictates. This is authoritarian action 101. The behavior of his masked ICE agents isn’t the removal of dangerous criminals and rapists; it […]
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Many more points to consider on beach access issue | Letter
Arguments against public use only go so far.
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Vote “Yes” on 1 to demand clean and fair elections in Maine | Letter
In 2022, a midterm election year, my brother received three ballots in the mail that he did not request. I remember him saying to me that if he had been dishonest, he would have filled out and returned all three ballots. Voter ID is a great path forward to ensure that each person gets only […]
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It is not ‘left-leaning’ to report the truth | Letter
I cannot leave two letters unchallenged from writers who complained about the paper’s supposed “left-leaning” approach to news. One letter writer (“Left-leaning reading results in left-leaning readership,” July 17) says the paper and other media outlets have spent a decade “spewing disinformation and outright lies” about the conservative side and ignoring President Biden’s aging. The […]
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Low turnout for Freeport school budget spells voter apathy | Letter
There is much more to the Portland Press Herald’s story on the passing of school budgets. Freeport residents seem apathetic — given the misguided failures of the planning and development of this once peaceful, beautiful place that many of us call home. The Town Council is out of control with spending and not reflective of […]
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Where are the conservative letters? | Letter
I’m appalled by the biased coverage of mass media. This opinion section plays an active part.