I feel like I’m in a dream, where I am screaming with no sound coming out. This is what it is like to watch voting rights being restricted all over the country. I don’t think I am alone. Many of us are watching future elections being fixed right now, and it’s terrifying. In 2006, Sen. […]

The House should urge the Senate’s passage of a budget resolution that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young adults brought to the U.S. as children, also known as Dreamers. The House already approved a pathway to citizenship by passing the American Dream and Promise Act in March, yet no further legislative action has […]

Sept. 11, 2001: On this day, and a few following days, 3,000 people died in an attack on this country. The country united and eventually killed the people responsible for this attack. Sept. 11, 2021: On this day, and the following day, 3,000 people died from the COVID-19 epidemic. The country continues to further disunite, […]

I’ve just read today’s (Sept. 9, Page B6) “Curtis” comic. Topic: Masking vs. not masking. I believe that “comics” imply something light and humorous. When this comic replaced “Mark Trail,” I was in favor of the change for a number of reasons. The “Curtis” strip was a good change. However, it is morphing into something […]

In Maine, and around the country, overworked health care workers are bitterly bracing to be fired from a job they love in an industry desperate for manpower because the tyranny of an out-of-control medical fascist state won’t accept “no” as an answer. Our jobs directly affect the health of society’s elderly, sick and disabled. We […]

Here in the U.S. and around the world, abortion rights are being challenged and attempts are being made to eliminate access to abortion services. It is my belief that the real way to eliminate the need for most abortions is to eliminate sexism, rape, incest, coercion, inadequate access to birth control and birth control failures. […]

I want to address our ungraceful exit from Afghanistan and the Sept. 9 Maine Voices op-ed commenting on this issue (“Twenty years after 9/11, ‘unthinkable’ looks a lot different”). I do this as an Army veteran, a retired physician and a war orphan whose father was killed by friendly fire during World War II. But […]

Re: Robert Skoglund’s commentary “The humble Farmer: I’m not exactly what you might call a happy camper” (Sept. 11, Page A11): I must confess, he’s not my favorite personality writer. Sometimes I think he sounds a bit “full of himself,” as the saying goes. But I often at least skim his columns, and today he […]