Recently I saw an ad put out by Central Maine Power about New England Clean Energy Connect  promoting jobs for Mainers. Unfortunately, this is nothing more than a cheap PR stunt, and I hope my fellow Mainers see through it. If CMP were actually interested in hiring Mainers to work on this unpopular project, it […]

As a small town police chief, I was pleased to read about a recent report highlighting the challenges parents have finding quality early childhood care and learning programs in areas like mine. Our youngest children need nurturing, stimulating environments for healthy brain development — both at home and in early learning programs while their parents […]

Please say it isn’t so. Paul LePage running for governor again? I barely survived four years of Trump’s bluster, buffoonery, bumbling, and bamboozlement. I simply cannot go through the same thing again. So I ask Mr. LePage to please move back to Florida, where I’m sure he would be more welcome. Marilyn Stevens, Lewiston

The Democrats are gung-ho to impeach President Trump. Since there is some dispute about whether they can convict a former president, I guess that still makes him president? They claim he incited the attack on the Capitol. Extremist fringe groups have been operating for decades; nobody controls them. The Democrats and media have been bullying […]

I am responding to Thomas Shields’ letter of Jan. 31, in which he questions President Biden’s mental acuity from afar. The American citizenry observed the chaos of four years of Trump, and after watching the debates decided that Biden was the better choice by over 7 million votes. Arizona and Georgia, states with Republican governors […]

I’m both glad and surprised to find that we’re lucky enough to have a renaissance man, Isaiah Lary, as a sitting Androscoggin County commissioner. In case people haven’t been keeping up lately on the county news, we have a commissioner who is better at constitutional law then the state attorney general, and smarter than the […]

I write in opposition to the Androscoggin County Commissioners’ proposed resolution to ignore the COVID-19 regulations. This is not solely an argument for public health, but for religious freedom and of personal heartache. I am the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Livermore Falls. Since the onset of the pandemic, we have worked tirelessly […]

This year Maine lawmakers will have the opportunity to change our state tax code, to ensure we can recover from the pandemic and make our economy stronger for everyone. We need to return to fairness, where working families are not paying more taxes than wealthy Mainers; where large corporations — that have benefited the most […]

We know that QAnon, the Proud Boys, and other Trump followers believe everything Trump says, no matter how obviously false, but it’s still shocking to see a gang of domestic terrorists in MAGA hats (not antifa or BLM) trying to wreck the U.S. Capitol. Some of these “patriots” were trying to find and kill Nancy […]

It is so sad that the critics of former Selectman George Colby of New Gloucester are so incapable of identifying the difference between real racism and harmless commentary. Those critics themselves may someday become victim of an inaccurately redefined term that they use. And, if George’s statement is so bad, why did the Lewiston Sun […]