Roger Belanger: Some Vietnam Navy vets must now fight for medical coverage

Today, I watched coverage of the Vietnam veterans and the thanks they received for their sacrifice. After serving in Vietnam, in the Navy, I and many others developed multiple diseases on the presumptive list for Agent Orange. All veterans that served in Vietnam received notice of presumptive exposure for diseases from Agent Orange. Congress and […]

Paul Baribault: Shootings reflect various forms of child abuse

There is a form of child abuse that goes unrecognized in our society today — it’s too subtle to be called that, but it’s there. It’s the abuse of children coming from all who claim the right to possess any and all weapons they wish to have, even if these can become the instruments of […]

Froma Harrop: Gen Z gets ready to don the gray flannel suit

Work schedules may be more hybrid than in the past, but all indicators point to more time in an old-fashioned office. Younger workers looking for a social life may like it.

Cal Thomas: In defense of Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu has been a force for good for Israel and the Jewish people. The same can’t be said for his political enemies.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Public schools in the hot seat

As we emerge from the pandemic, schools are under scrutiny on several fronts, some coming from the pandemic but others already hot long before COVID-19 changed almost everything.

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, April 1

Alicia Clark: Maine: A safe refuge for the unborn?

As a resident of Maine I am writing concerning a proposed bill to expand abortion to full-term in the state. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court shifted the protection of Maine’s most vulnerable residents, the unborn, to state lawmakers across the nation. The current Maine law is quite broad already and […]

Winston Antoine: Back LD 928, protect food sources for future generations

I am writing as a concerned citizen to urge legislators to vote “ought to pass” on LD 928, the Pine Tree Amendment.I am a hunter, fisherman, gardener and forager. The majority of my diet comes from food that I have either hunted, fished, foraged or grown myself. Constitutionally enshrining my and all Mainers’ rights to […]

Cynthia Phinney: Bates management succeeded in stymieing union formation efforts

In the Sun Journal’s coverage of the long-awaited counting of ballots in the Bates Employees & Staff Organization’s (BESO) vote to form a union, reporter Steve Collins’ conclusion and reporting demonstrate a lack of understanding of what workers faced at Bates in this campaign, or what workers in general face in most efforts to form […]

James Parakilas: Rep. Golden should take lead on climate change

U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has championed our lobster industry in its pleas to keep using traditional lobstering gear. Of course our congressman understands that his advocacy is useless if there are no lobster to catch. He also knows that, due to climate change, the Gulf of Maine is warming three times faster than the oceans […]