After looking at the 20-or-so democratic wannabes and then at the current occupant of the White House, I am reminded of a movie titled ‘The American President’ from the mid 1990s. In  the movie, President Andrew Shepherd, ably portrayed by Michael Douglas, gives a speech in which he (twice) utters the immortal phrase: “We have serious […]

I think I know why all the shootings are going on in this country. It’s all the negative news you see day in and day out on the news media. This is in print, television and the internet. Never any good news shown, oh maybe a 30-second bump at the end. What do you think […]

Jared Golden’s “Unity of the country must come first” is a misleading and superficial piece of writing that does not properly address the full ramifications of the Mueller report. The most glaring weakness in the op-ed is Rep. Golden’s glossing over of the entire second volume of the report, which investigates whether the President committed […]

I am writing this letter to address a problem that has affected all life on earth for over 100 years and continues to cause both illness and death to a “huge”, but unknown number of humans world wide. I am talking about smoking, i.e. cigarettes. It is a known fact that tobacco use is a […]

Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. I firmly believe that without Russian interference, he would not have prevailed in the Electoral College. He wanted James Comey to give Michael Flynn a pass. In an attempt to obstruct justice in the Robert Mueller investigation, he fired Comey and tried to fire Mueller. He […]

I read with great interest Joan Villani’s letter to the editor posted July 30. She asks where was the media and Democrats outcry when noted people — Madonna, Kathy Griffin, Johnny Depp and Robert DeNiro made negative statements about Donald Trump? This was in follow-up to: “Recently, President Donald Trump took a tongue-lashing from the […]

CMP is wedged between two connected scandals — their horrible billing problems and the disastrous corridor project the company is trying to shove through Western Maine. A former CMP executive said the company’s billing problems were so bad due to their focus on building a for-profit corridor. CMP is less interested in fixing the billing […]