In Bruce Poliquin’s world, down seems to be up, and up seems to be down. In a column in the March 13 Press Herald, he voiced his opposition to HR 1, a bill that passed the House of Representatives on March 8. The aim of HR 1 is to expand voting access and improve accountability […]

I got my second Moderna vaccine shot two weeks ago. Does that mean that I will not get the COVID infection? No! The efficacy of the Moderna vaccine, two weeks after the second shot, is about 95 percent for the general population, according to a Food and Drug Administration analysis, but only about 86 percent […]

Re: “Rep. Golden only Democrat in Congress to vote against national rescue package” (March 10): I’m writing to let 2nd District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden know that the benefits that he got in the military were paid for with taxpayers’ money. The ideals of the Democratic Party were solidified during the Great Depression. A dignified […]

As I read Bruce Poliquin’s column last week, “We must protect sacred right to vote, freely and fairly” (March 13, Page A9), I found myself growing frustrated and irritated. It wasn’t as much the opinion he gave, as the words he chose. Our national dialogue, which is often guided by our elected leaders, has been […]

I believe that Megan McArdle is correct in her recent syndicated Washington Post column (“Stimulus checks are the least defensible part of relief bill,” March 12, Page A13). The inclusion of stimulus checks in the recent spending bill is indefensible. So were all the other stimulus checks being passed out since George W. Bush opened […]

I am writing as a member of the southern Maine community who is deeply concerned and upset by the construction of the new Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility at 40 Manson Libby Road in Scarborough. In September, members of Congress released a report exposing both egregious conditions in ICE detention centers as well as the […]

Letter writer Samuel Rosenthal (March 12) falls victim to a common misunderstanding about how property tax reassessments work. The goal is fairness, so what is actually being reset is your property’s new valuation relative to all the other new valuations. Following the reassessments, this is done by recalculating the tax rate so that the total […]