By arbitrarily excluding candidates from the primary process, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has disenfranchised voters and effectively controls the outcome of Maine’s upcoming presidential election. This decision is dangerously reminiscent of ploys used in the USSR, Venezuela and North Korea, where dissident candidates were jailed or murdered before elections. It’s a ruling routinely employed […]

My wish for the new year is a return to common decency and morality, to see kindness and caring everywhere. I am hopeful Generation Z will march to the polls this November in droves to say we will not accept inaction in Congress while children are being massacred in our schools. I wish to see […]

Voting with rich Republicans appears to be an emerging pattern with Congressman Jared Golden. He was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans against the Build Back Better bill designed to provide badly-needed services for Mainers and to address climate change. He voted consistently with Republicans against the ban of the AR-15 until he […]

How sad and pathetic it is when three individuals and a bias secretary of state can make a decision that affects the rights of all the citizens of this wonderful state (excluding Donald Trump from the primaries). What a slap in the face. Obviously, they don’t believe that we are capable of thinking for ourselves […]

I’m so upset that so many people were angry with Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. I feel she was very direct and stated just the facts. People are so quick to judge without looking up the information. I wish people would take the blinders off and see Donald Trump for what he really is. He […]

Donald Trump has been verbally bashed by many, and justifiably so. I too, have joined in on the bandwagon several times. Nevertheless, he does show a few positive traits. He speaks clearly, assertively, with frequent repetition to drive home his points with no uncertainty. He carries himself with self-assurance, nattily dressed. He deals out an […]

Here’s a request to move Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston to an area less likely to experience flooding. Perhaps the park across the street could be expanded to accommodate the various monuments, benches and souvenirs of service. If the community is going to fundraise $100,000 to restore what was damaged, it makes sense to me […]

It is time we left Israel to its own revenge and genocide. I do not want my money to go to supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, when it fails to differentiate between Hamas and civilians. I understand that Hamas did a terrible thing, but I think Israel has got its pound of flesh many times […]

For Christians in the West Bank, Christmas is not a merry day, and celebrations normally attended by thousands at the birthplace of Jesus are canceled as bombs rain down on Bethlehem. There is mourning, not just for their own losses — those killed by an Israeli Defense Force bombing of a Greek Orthodox church in […]

Hamas, Isis, the Taliban and Hezbollah all have one thing in common. They are all pure barbarism at its ultimate worst that humanity has to offer. Barbarism is savagery at a primitive level, without any restraint or civilized state of being. This moment in history takes all of us back in time to the Twin […]