Richard Nadeau: Governor should have put COVID funds into lobstering industry

Not only does our governor of Maine want feticide on demand, now she wants to drive the North Atlantic right whale to extinction. There are only about 350 of these animals left. She used COVID money from the federal government to give every Mainer who filed their income taxes $850, when this money actually should […]

Ann Oskam: Save Lake Auburn, vote Harmon for mayor

Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque is a real estate developer. He and his like-minded cronies’ thinly veiled attempts to steer Auburn away from its longstanding comprehensive plan to maintain the precious natural resources is not a mystery or concern for affordable housing, which evidently belongs in Lewiston or on the backs of low income homeowners in […]

Austin Bay: The Wagner Revolt leaves losers worldwide

Mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin didn’t dispute Russian President Vladimir Putin’s big lie about the Ukraine War, that Russia is fighting Nazis and NATO. The merc commander did something more lethal: He directly challenged the Kremlin’s veneer of competence and its mystical trust in overwhelming Russian military might.

Editorial cartoon for Friday, June 30

Cal Thomas: Whom to believe?

If everyone has their own “truth,” then nothing can be said to be true. If we no longer teach — even impose — virtue and the importance of good character, then we get their opposite.

William LaRochelle: Cal Thomas, John Adams ‘are light years apart doctrinally’

I can sympathize with Cal Thomas’ decrying our decadent, “anything goes culture” (“We must care about what’s appropriate,” Sun Journal, June 21). The evidence is everywhere. On Yahoo’s website, for example, I sometimes see laudatory reports with photos about female celebrities pushing the envelope by appearing publicly in broad daylight wearing tops that only hide […]

In rebuttal: Douglas Hodgkin: Correcting the ‘myth’ behind Lewiston’s name

Unfortunately, the article by Steve Collins (“One of the Androscoggin’s mysteries: Why did Lewiston Falls become Great Falls?,” June 25) ended with the myth about the Native American named “Lewis” as the source of the name of “Lewiston.” Actually, when the Pejepscot Proprietors granted the land to Moses Little and Jonathan Bagley in 1768, they […]

Susan Martin: Harmon ‘an excellent alternative’ for Auburn mayor

I am glad to see that Jeff Harmon is running for mayor of Auburn. The city needs a more transparent and sensible approach to development. The large and still expanding apartment complex on Court Street is but one example of housing that is only affordable for upper middle-income individuals and families. Additionally, it adds significant […]

Editorial cartoon for Thursday, June 29

Tim Ricker: Auburn mayor ‘needs to get over himself’

Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ll say it anyway … the mayor of Auburn needs to get over himself. He thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, every time. If he didn’t think of it first, it can’t be the best idea. If he and his buddy John Gendron don’t have their hand in it, […]