Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
‘Big, beautiful bill’ includes small, nasty provisions | Letter
It is universally acknowledged that the so-called “big, beautiful bill” imposes massive pain on low and middle income people, while transferring billions to the most wealthy. It will be particularly painful for rural states such as our own. Less visible are two small, ugly, and radically anti-democratic provisions buried in the bill: one restricts federal […]
Susan Collins must reject reckless budget bill | Letter
In your May 22 article on the Republican budget bill, which passed the House by one vote, you state that Sen. Susan Collins and other Senate Republicans “have expressed concern about the health care cuts” in the bill. Collins has, for 28 years, been “concerned” about everything. Enough already. According to the Congressional Budget Office, […]
Second Amendment must be approached in context | Letter
In response to the June 6 letter concerning the Second Amendment (“Wrong to suggest electorate would take up arms“), when that was passed in the late 18th century, it took maybe a minute to a minute and a half to reload a musket. The cyclical rate of fire for an M-16 is 700 to 900 […]
I’m looking forward to the military parade | Letter
Why wouldn’t we celebrate our might, our people?
Trump budget bill would weaken federal courts | Letter
In addition to cutting taxes to the wealthy, raising our deficit and cutting Medicaid, President Trump’s budget bill has these words embedded in it: “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given […]
Disappointed by Americans’ sense of entitlement | Letter
How is it that so many Americans think they are entitled to live in the richest country in the world while so many others suffer without what they need just to survive? It seems to me that the people in this country with the most still want more. It’s not “right” that they have to […]
I support Ms. Rachel | Letter
I support Ms. Rachel’s speaking out on behalf of all children, including those in Gaza, whom Israel has killed and maimed in the tens of thousands, using bombs, incendiaries, tanks, artillery and starvation. The most horrific and depraved killing method is by sniper fire — IDF soldiers deliberately taking aim at the heads and hearts […]
Laurel Libby puts power above integrity | Letter
Over the last few months, I have followed Rep. Laurel Libby’s house censureship case with great interest. What Rep. Libby and her supporters seem to have forgotten is that she was censured because she posted an image of a minor without the individual’s permission, not for her political views. As I understand it, she has […]
Fast for Gaza to bring attention to humanitarian crisis | Letter
In Gaza, with over 1,000 trucks loaded with life-saving aid that the government of Israel will not allow in, 14,000 babies and infants risked starving to death. Here in Waldo County, there are approximately 1,746 children who are under age 5. By comparison, it means that every child we know — our own children — […]