I enjoyed Michael Burke’s essay titled “Please, Canada, take Maine in?,” which appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram on April 13. In his piece, Mr. Burke describes what our lives might be like as Canadian citizens. The essayist offers an imaginary escape from our frightening reality under the regime of President Donald Trump and his […]

Aroostook County and Oxford County are the first two of eight county governments in Maine with unorganized territories that have adopted “county-wide local food and self-governance ordinances for their UTs,” now allowable under recent amendments of the Food Sovereignty Act. Unorganized territories cover many counties across Maine, and currently account for more than 7,511 folks. […]

The state of Maine and our children are now pawns in a political stunt meant to force our state to ignore the laws of Maine and fulfill the wishes of President Trump and his pack of DOGEs. They have decided to punish every Maine child by illegally withholding education funds. All because two trans children […]

I’m a Christian and believe strongly in the teaching of Jesus that states, “Whatever we do to the least of these, we do to God.” Holding true to this teaching, that means our country has become a people that will tear God away from families in the middle of the night, that will round up […]

I am morally outraged at the DOGE-fueled cuts to the Maine State Library, which have forced the layoff of 13 librarians. These librarians perform useful services to Mainers, including people with vision impairments and rural library patrons. Librarians are not overpaid, and their jobs help job seekers, English language learners, business people, students — the […]

I believe Victor Orban, the oligarchical, autocratic leader of Hungary, has had a large hand in orchestrating our administration. It is Orban’s “playbook” that the conservatives followed in their Project 2025. Orban was a speaker at several CPACs going back to 2016. Orban visited our current president several times at his home before this past […]

I have long believed in a more aggressive position against China’s trade policies. However, I am horrified by our president’s tariff rhetoric, especially against Canada. Canadians are not just Maine’s neighbors; in many cases, they are family. Talking about invading and making them the 51st state is irrational and disrespectful to one of our closest […]

I want to thank columnist Jim Fossel for talking about “soaking the rich” when it comes to taxes and our state budget (“Janet Mills, Democrats prepare to unleash tax tsunami on Maine,” April 13). A quick look around tells us about the precarious state of what is loosely termed our social safety net: hospitals, health […]