Daily, tens of thousands of Maine workers provide vital daily supports and services to older people, people with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities, and people with behavioral health challenges, to ensure they thrive in their homes and community settings. That said, weekly at SeniorsPlus we cannot find 10,000 hours of personal care coverage. This means […]

Fifty-three percent of Republicans think Trump is our true president. Twenty-three percent believe the QAnon movement beliefs are correct. And did people notice that the GOP blocked a bill for an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at our capital? The bill’s failure marks the first successful GOP filibuster this year. Sen. Matt Gaetz has […]

In his May 30 column, “Ministry of Truth 2.0,” Cal Thomas reproached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for working to develop tools to help children discern truth from lies. That’s government indoctrination and propaganda, to his mind. Maybe yes, maybe not. We’ll have to wait and see what develops. He then deplored the fact […]

Cal Thomas states (“Ministry of Truth 2.0,” May 30) that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “is reportedly considering the development of tools that would help America’s children discern truth from lies and know when they are being fed disinformation,” and then proceeds to equate this with the government telling children what they should believe. The […]

I’d like to comment on Crystal Ward’s excellent letter to the editor (“Water rate hike ‘drastic’ in trying times,” May 25) regarding the increase of water rate in Lewiston — I totally agree with her. I’ve been tracking the unit cost for water and sewer since prior to 2013. Although it’s true that the water […]

This week Donald Trump reportedly told allies that he expects to be reinstated to the presidency by August. And at a QAnon-linked conference his pardoned former aide, Gen. Michael Flynn, acknowledged when asked that this “should happen” through a Myanmar-type military coup, a threat he later walked back, though it’s a belief that QAnon followers […]

The Auburn school budget referendum will be held Tuesday, June 8. This budget has been carefully developed and approved by the Auburn School Committee, and reviewed and approved by the Auburn City Council. Maine law requires a city-wide vote for its final approval. The voter turnout for this annual budget vote is usually very low, […]

There’s a disappointing predictability about the way letter writers like Jim Benson defend Trump. I appreciate his willingness to put himself out there publicly in favor of our former president. But he says Biden’s policies will destroy America. Which policies? Details matter. He claims in his May 30 letter that we’re headed “to the graveyard […]

Congratulations to all of our high school graduates. In reading the article in the May 29 edition about the St. Dominic Academy graduation, and seeing the quotation from the mother of a student, I was very disheartened by the derogatory comment about Lewiston. Sadly the reporter felt that should be shared. Lewiston is to be […]

This year, our family lost a much-admired friend from our New Mainer community to a trauma-based illness. It is an example of the vulnerability of our neighbors who have come to Maine to find safety after years of war in their home countries. The Maine Legislature has an opportunity this session to restore health insurance […]