Infrastructure is not eternal. It needs maintenance, and a policy promoting infrastructure can be unifying. The president wants (perhaps) to unify the country by building a wall along the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico. That would not work on boat people, who might avail themselves to the 10,000-plus mile coastline; and some people […]

In his column, “Issue in need of action, not denial” (Dec. 9), Elliott Epstein is exactly right. The science regarding climate change and its accelerated cause couldn’t be more objective. • Core ice samples from Greenland and Norway, going back some five million years, provide indisputable evidence that the world’s conversion to carbon fuels (coal […]

Ranked-choice voting is far superior to the old voting system, in which the candidate with the largest minority won. Under the old voting system, when Mike Michaud and Eliot Cutler ran against Paul LePage, LePage won because Michaud and Cutler split the popular vote. Ranked-choice voting gives the voter more choices. Candidates, to compete, have […]

Poland Spring Water’s advertisement in a recent Rumford paper was meant to project a positive image. Facts don’t lie, but sometimes the way they are presented is confusing and can distort the truth in a way that misleads many to see only what those presenting the facts wish them to see. It is only good […]

As a Franklin Alternative School alumnus, I was saddened by the Sun Journal article (Dec. 6) regarding the possible merger of Franklin Alternative and Edward Little High School. I was angered by the tone of city councilor and mayor’s representative Alfreda Fournier, who stated “Out of sight, out of mind,” as rationale for consolidating the […]

America has become known as a country of fragmented fear, anxiety and hatred. I don’t understand the thoughts of citizens who have become part of a movement that seems outrageously centered on thoughts that “other people” are a threat to themselves and their way of life. Everything is the fault of someone else and we, […]