Kudos to Press Herald staff writer John Terhune for his excellent article on the Maine Gaza Solidarity Flotilla, a welcome departure from typical mainstream media coverage that often neglects, distorts or lies about what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank. I offer a few comments. First, I think demonstrators who took part in […]
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Hawaii highlights the shame of private beaches in Maine | Letter
I was born, raised, educated and employed in Maine for most of my long life and have always been proud of that. However, having just returned from a “bucket-list” trip to Hawaii, I learned something that made me angry and very disappointed in our state. Hawaii’s plentiful and wondrous beaches are all open to the […]
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Maine’s Question 2 takes aim at gun owners | Letter
Charles Armstrong’s Oct. 1 letter, about referendum Question 2, states that “firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens, and the leading cause of suicide death in Maine.” That’s like saying automobiles are the leading cause of deaths in car crashes. Firearms don’t shoot themselves any more than cars drive themselves. This […]
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Clarifying America’s relationship with war | Letter
Republicans are always the ones bailing us out of conflict? That’s a stretch.
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Why I’m flying a red flag from my house | Letter
I have two flags flying on my house: an American flag and a University of Connecticut Huskies flag. I am a huge UConn basketball fan, so this will be my time of year. That being said, I have taken down my beloved Huskies flag and put up a red flag. I know red is the […]
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Why I’m flying a red flag from my house | Letter
I have two flags flying on my house: an American flag and a University of Connecticut Huskies flag. I am a huge UCONN basketball fan, so this will be my time of year. That being said, I have taken down my beloved Huskies flag and put up a red flag. I know red is the […]
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Golf used to be a gentleman’s game | Letter
My parents were golfers — good golfers. My father told me golf was a “gentleman’s game”; a player did not throw his golf club, or wrap it around a tree, or insult a fellow golfer. He would have been in disbelief last week if he had been around to see the last round of the […]
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Maine senators’ silence has become deafening | Letter
Susan Collins and Angus King need to speak up on a whole host of issues.
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US must take responsibility for tragedy in Gaza | Letter
Even in the face of sinking one of our naval vessels, the USS Liberty, in 1967, we continue to send Israel billions of dollars every year. And we’ve not held it accountable for anything. How many people in Gaza and the surrounding area have to die by starvation and American bombs? The fault is ours. […]
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Dubious outreach by the Catholic Church | Letter
Though no longer Catholic or a believer of any stripe, I want to comment on the meeting in September between Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, founder of Outreach, a support group for LGBTQ+ Catholics. The pope, in short, encouraged him to continue his ministry to the group’s members. After reading reports on […]