Our two primary political parties are both responsible for the decades-long crisis on the southern border, as well as the ridiculous national debt. It’s nice that President-elect Donald Trump wants to tackle both problems. To deal with our debt and spending issues, Trump’s primary handler, Elon Musk, will be part of a team to study […]

I consider Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” presentation of paintings the most important art event in Maine during 2024. His paintings of teachers, activists, attorneys, veterans, poets, environmentalists and others, who faced real challenges when seeking and confronting truth, is a warning to our society at this time. I am grateful for the […]

I want to congratulate the Auburn City Council and Mayor Jeff Harmon for voting to support the construction of a bike/pedestrian trail on the unused Berlin Subdivision rail line between Portland and Danville Junction. If built, this trail could then link with the proposed Auburn Gateway to allow off-road, safe travel from Portland into Lewiston/Auburn. […]

I write in response to Joe Voisine’s letter (“No one is above the law, including President Biden,” Dec. 27). I am amazed that he seems to discount the more than 30,000 documented lies that Donald Trump told as President. Facts show the economy was strong under Biden’s term. There were more deportations under Biden than […]

Who would have imagined that a South African native, Elon Musk, would hold the power to trash a bi-partisan Congressional budget plan a week before the nation was facing another governmental shutdown? Who would have ever imagined that the job security of 2.5 million federal workers would rest in the hands of the richest Republican […]

What a wonderful surprise in Dec. 27’s Sun Journal (“Muhammad Ali statue under construction in Lewiston“). Developer Tom Platz and his friends have commissioned Zenos Frudakis, one of the world’s foremost sculpture artists, to create a bronze statue of Muhammad Ali’s great triumph over Sonny Liston in Lewiston in 1965. It will be based on […]

President Biden’s broken promise on not pardoning his son Hunter comes as no surprise to me. He lied to the American people for so long about the economy, open borders and blaming former President Trump for leaving him with a mess when he took office. So, just a few weeks before Hunter’s trial he pardons […]

It seems really obvious that our “fearless leader,” President-elect Donald Trump, thinks lowering people’s grocery bills is no priority. Revenge and chaos are his strongest motivations — that, or whatever his pal Elon Musk thinks is best. I hope Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un aren’t jealous. There’s only so much of Don to go […]

During the presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump filed a spate of lawsuits against news organizations — ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos among them — advancing the false narrative that his perceived enemies unfairly target him, wrote Politico’s Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing. Now the New York Times reports that Debra OConnell, the Disney executive who directly […]

Any sensible person with a smidgen of knowledge about Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s careers as genocidal autocrats knows better than to view President-elect Donald Trump as their counterpart in that respect. So, I disagree with letter writer Mark Wood’s objection (Dec. 19) to Dave Granlund’s cartoon, in which Trump is depicted as Time magazine’s […]