Jacynthe Jacques: Lewiston library cuts would hurt fiber of community

I was once an immigrant who made Lewiston my home. I spoke French and had to learn to navigate a new country and culture. The Lewiston Library became a refuge for me and my family — a place to learn English, to access services we might not have been able to get elsewhere, a place […]

Mary Hunter: Library deserves Lewiston’s continued support

I am opposed to reducing the Lewiston Public Library’s weekly hours from 50 to 40 and closing for an additional day. That’s a 20% cut in services to key populations in Lewiston, particularly young people doing homework, others without easy access to the internet at home, and those looking for materials in languages other than […]

Denis Bergeron: Follow the money

The Sun Journal is doing a good job running stories on the trial over the New England Clean Energy Connect. A few weeks ago, Portland Press Herald writer Tux Turkel raised the issue of the costs of legal participation in the trial by Natural Resources Council of Maine. According to the article, NRCM received a […]

Froma Harrop: They’re very rich but also very lonely

Assuming reasonably good health, who wouldn’t find contentment living in a gilded mansion and flying around in private jets? Imagine being able to just plunk down a platinum card anytime some glittering luxury winks your way. Envision being cushioned from the indignities of waiting on lines. But imagine also how this exclusivity can separate one from interaction with other human beings.

Mark Wood: In abortion discussions, words matter

Words matter when talking about abortion. So, as the debate over how and where, or even if, the abortion pill mifepristone can be dispensed, we are hearing and reading about the term “medication abortion” to describe its use. Even though “medication” is a term reserved for describing the use of various pharmaceuticals — whether over […]

Bill Frayer: Reducing library hours would cut off nose to spite face

I am writing to oppose the proposed cuts to the Lewiston Public Library’s budget. Benjamin Franklin started our first public library in Philadelphia in 1731. He later wrote, “This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair’d in some […]

Jake Paris: Expand, not reduce, Lewiston library hours

As a longtime (more than 20 years) resident of Lewiston and a longtime user of the library, I was extremely disappointed to hear of the possibility of closing the library one extra day per week. Here are two good reasons to expand library hours, rather than shorten them. My first is that the library plays […]

Editorial cartoon for Friday, April 21

In rebuttal: E. Paul Dupuis: Rep. Golden advocated for Vietnam vets’ benefits

I write in response to Roger Belanger’s letter (“Some Vietnam Navy vets must now fight for medical coverage,” April 1), regarding the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. In his letter, Mr. Belanger correctly notes that this bill corrected a wrong that denied Navy service members serving in the vicinity of Vietnam a presumptive coverage […]

Ellen Field: Roe v. Wade should have been left alone

I wonder why men are allowed to tell women what to do with their own bodies. If men could get pregnant, abortion would definitely be legal. How many men get women pregnant and fail to provide for their baby? Unfortunately, many fathers just disappear, leaving a working mother making minimum wage and unable to afford […]