After reading Liz Shulman’s Aug. 23 Chicago Tribune commentary about student phone dependency (“My students’ relationship with their phones makes me worry about their future”), I am in utter contempt of our supposed education system. This is not teaching, it is warehousing. Impossible to enforce “no phones” in the classroom? Wrong! The only thing entering […]

Staff Writer Joe Lawlor did a wonderful job depicting the pain and dysfunction of our American system of health care (“Hidden charges, denied claims,” Aug. 21, Page A1). The stories he tells are compelling and leave little question but that the system is badly broken. But while Lawlor hints at the roots of the problem […]

I am writing in response to the nasty review of Maine in the Aug. 21 New York Post by Cindy Adams. I am not a regular Post reader, so I had to do some research in order to understand the context for such a hateful review of my beloved home state. Cindy Adams is a […]

The Aug. 21 article by Staff Writer Joe Lawlor (“Hidden charges, denied claims,” Page A1) shines a light on how confusing and frustrating medical billing is in this country, and how it affects Maine people. From surprise charges such as “facility fees” and denial of claims, to insurance companies not covering medications or procedures that […]

We understand that taxpayer money will reimburse those college graduates who find some difficulty in repaying the loans they promised to repay, but those who paid what they promised will be ignored. To be fair, perhaps the latter could get a partial rebate of what they paid. Richard Dreselly South Portland

Putting aside the reality that the proposed student debt relief plan is a vote-getting strategy, let’s ask ourselves why major contributors to the student debt mess – our universities and colleges – receive a free pass in helping to resolve it. Too many U.S. colleges have serious financial woes because their dated business model can […]

The root cause of student debt is the ignorance, arrogance and narcissism of both the students and the “higher” education sycophants. Throughout life we choose our debts. You choose, you pay, not me – you pay. Move on. Brian Jones Gorham