Gov. Janet Mills has consistently stood up for the rights of Maine’s transgender students in the face of the White House’s executive order banning transgender women from women’s sports. After being confronted, and threatened, on the issue in person by President Trump at a National Governors Association meeting recently, Mills told him that she would […]
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Letter: Maine will suffer in this new economy
On March 9, the Maine Sunday Telegram published a piece about the price Maine will pay for Trump 2.0. And for what? There are no swarms of immigrants coming across the Canadian border, nearly unmeasurable amounts of drugs. Surely it’s not about the budget with $2 trillion of tax cuts on offer for the wealthiest. […]
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Letter: Hugo-Vidal was clear, direct on deportations
I want to thank Victoria Hugo-Vidal for speaking out against the Trump deportation policies in her March 23 column. She is spot-on. These deportations are brutal, vindictive, intimidating and, very possibly, illegal. The message is clear: whether someone is a Lebanese doctor with a valid visa working to save American lives or a Venezuelan with […]
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Letter: Women drive the economy and deserve autonomy
Women make up 58.7% of workers in Maine aged 16 and older. In 2024, more young women than men had a bachelor’s degree. They are mothers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, teachers, CEOs, caregivers and much more. A new fight for women’s autonomy faces a president who rewards conservative financial supporters by enacting their restrictive vision […]
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Letter: The principles of law and democracy are hills worth dying on
In his March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on“), Charles Todorich lambasted Gov. Mills for her reply to President Trump’s threats to our state. I believe that Mr. Todorich, in envisioning our governor’s “hill,” has confused the background and the foreground. The issue that […]
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Letter: I’m proud of ‘the hill’ Gov. Mills chose
I am writing in response to the March 9 op-ed stating that Gov. Mills chose the “wrong hill” to die on. What I saw in her interaction with President Trump was someone courageously standing up to a bully. She didn’t choose the fight. He called her out about a policy that she did not establish. […]
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Letter: Mills deserves credit for standing up to Trump
Charles Todorich spent a lot of time giving us a Civil War history lesson (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on,” March 9) and then failed to explain what it had to do with Gov. Janet Mills telling Trump that Maine will not be bullied and that she will do […]
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Letter: EV charging station holdup convenient for Musk, Tesla
The delayed rollout of new Level 3 chargers in Maine is unfair, if not downright corrupt.
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Letter: Downsize government, but allow important work to continue
When I was in college, I had a summer internship at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., where I saw firsthand how inefficient, unwieldy and bloated federal bureaucracies can be. Many of my co-workers didn’t seem to have enough to do; marginally competent employees were passed from office to office and resources were […]
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Letter: America is being lost to an oligarchy
The entire controversy exemplified in the Rep. Laurel Libby issue is a symptom of the chaos and diversion tactics of Trumpism that are displacing the real issues America should be focusing on. As David Brooks wrote in a Feb. 13 New York Times opinion piece, “Here’s the essence of Trumpism: It’s to be blithely unconcerned […]