When I recently went online to find out how many Democrats vs. Republicans have had the COVID vaccine, a recent poll showed that 86% of Democrats and 45% of Republicans were vaccinated. Many reasons for this disparity have been given, but I do not want to waste my limited amount of space with a review […]

As a young climate activist, I’m deeply concerned about the fact that our political leaders are not doing enough to combat climate change. Case in point: the decision by Congress in 2017 to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. The Arctic Refuge is one of the last wild places […]

I write in response to Kevin Landry’s guest column (“Time to move on from a cancerous past,” July 11). I think Landry is correct to point out the biases and discrimination New England’s Franco Americans have faced. However, Landry makes the specious claim that if systemic racism exists “then not only are institutions racist, but […]

A committee has been formed to study bringing a train to the Lewiston area. Perhaps before getting too far into this venture, the committee should pause and read the children’s story, “The Little Engine That Could.” In the story the engine is finally able to climb up the mountain and go over its top. Miracle?  […]

I’ve read and re-read Cal Thomas’s July 11 column. It seems Thomas has swallowed a specious and a spurious fantasy: America was founded as a Christian nation, and thus manifested American exceptionalism. I’m a Christian believer and a minister, who found Thomas’s anemic, westernized, weak-kneed pity party for Christianity an affront, which required a rebuttal. […]