On March 9, the Maine Sunday Telegram published a piece about the price Maine will pay for Trump 2.0. And for what? There are no swarms of immigrants coming across the Canadian border, nearly unmeasurable amounts of drugs. Surely it’s not about the budget with $2 trillion of tax cuts on offer for the wealthiest. […]

I want to thank Victoria Hugo-Vidal for speaking out against the Trump deportation policies in her March 23 column. She is spot-on. These deportations are brutal, vindictive, intimidating and, very possibly, illegal. The message is clear: whether someone is a Lebanese doctor with a valid visa working to save American lives or a Venezuelan with […]

Women make up 58.7% of workers in Maine aged 16 and older. In 2024, more young women than men had a bachelor’s degree. They are mothers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, teachers, CEOs, caregivers and much more. A new fight for women’s autonomy faces a president who rewards conservative financial supporters by enacting their restrictive vision […]

In his March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on“), Charles Todorich lambasted Gov. Mills for her reply to President Trump’s threats to our state. I believe that Mr. Todorich, in envisioning our governor’s “hill,” has confused the background and the foreground. The issue that […]

I am writing in response to the March 9 op-ed stating that Gov. Mills chose the “wrong hill” to die on. What I saw in her interaction with President Trump was someone courageously standing up to a bully. She didn’t choose the fight. He called her out about a policy that she did not establish. […]

Charles Todorich spent a lot of time giving us a Civil War history lesson (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on,” March 9) and then failed to explain what it had to do with Gov. Janet Mills telling Trump that Maine will not be bullied and that she will do […]

President Donald Trump backtracked on an order to require new Maine parents to visit Social Security Administration offices to register their children, rather than use a check-off measure on hospital forms available in all other states. Now, the bloviating president has axed $15 million in federal funding for energy efficiency and clean energy programs in […]

As the frog noted, “This water is getting warm!” Some locations are drying up, others are flooding, others are on fire or besieged by storms on steroids. It is unacceptable that the GOP’s hyperpartisan stampede to erase the language and (it hopes) the memory of wokeness in our country has allowed climate science and whole […]