Like them or not, our governor’s views are irrelevant in this case.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
‘Voter ID for Maine’ bill is a Trojan horse | Letter
It aims to ‘protect’ us from voter fraud, an issue that doesn’t exist.
Maine will feel the sting of reduced medical services | Letter
Just how low can they go? An article appeared in the April 27 edition of the Sun Journal exposing the lost funding from terminated grants by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“Feds freeze community paramedicine funding across Maine”). It’s becoming more difficult to find a primary doctor, hospitals are closing, and this […]
Love of Maine on show at Hearts of Pine opener | Letter
Recent years have tested one of Maine’s finest qualities: It’s a purple state where our identity as lovers of Maine outweighs our political differences. The Portland Hearts of Pine home opener last Sunday displayed all of our potential as Mainers united. The event was so totally about our state, from “MAINE” on our players’ jerseys […]
Push back on Trump’s agenda and planned parade | Letter
On June 14, there will be another opportunity for Mainers to demonstrate against the current administration in Washington, and here’s why I think Mainers should participate loudly, wherever they can. For decades now, Americans have accused presidents they didn’t like of being “fascists” and even portrayed them as Hitleresque. I have always taken Hitler comparisons […]
I’m an election worker watching voting under attack | Letter
Three bills currently before the Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs — LDs 38, 397 and 1149 — call for voters to present photographic identification to vote. LD 1149 proposes more than that, by severely limiting absentee voting and adding other requirements. Its provisions would create barriers that will block our constitutional right to […]
Did Pope Francis really uphold tradition on homosexuality? | Letter
I’m a 75-year-old, ex-Catholic, agnostic atheist and a lifelong homosexual writing in reply to the article on Pope Francis and homosexuality in the April 25 Sun Journal. It was reported there that although the late pope endeavored to make the church more welcoming of LGBTQ+ Catholics, he nonetheless upheld the traditional teaching that homosexual activity […]
The real driver of Maine’s rising electricity rates | Letter
Natural gas, not renewable energy, is the true culprit.
Trump post disrespected Pope Francis and Catholics | Letter
As a Catholic, Vice President JD Vance thought the AI photo that Donald J. Trump posted on social media, of himself as pope (Donald I?), was “funny.” As a Catholic, I find the photo appalling and a direct disrespect to the late Pope Francis and Catholics in general. Humility, truly the middle name of the […]
Stop treating trans people as an issue to be solved | Letter
President Trump just can’t leave the trans issue alone, and true to form, he’d rather fight about it than find a reasoned solution. Republicans in the Maine Legislature are apparently of the same stripe. They have taken up the call with LD 926, “a committee amendment to HP 682 to ban biological males from participating […]