Todd Goodwin: If not now, when?

With a healthy state surplus and nearly $1 billion coming to Maine through the American Rescue Plan Act, the time is now to raise MaineCare and state-funded rates to stabilize and grow our state’s essential, frontline workforce.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The name game

Sometimes, political correctors want to overcome the fact that perfectly good words come to have perfectly bad connotations.

Cal Thomas: The commission we really need

How about a commission to examine the source of the anger that produced the (Jan. 6) attack? The sources aren’t conservative talk radio or cable TV. They are merely conduits for many Americans who are fed up with their government and want it to return to the boundaries established by the Founders.

In rebuttal: Bradford Tuck: Insight needed to separate truth from fiction

Cal Thomas states (“Ministry of Truth 2.0,” May 30) that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “is reportedly considering the development of tools that would help America’s children discern truth from lies and know when they are being fed disinformation,” and then proceeds to equate this with the government telling children what they should believe. The […]

Jennie Peters: Now isn’t time for Lewiston water rate hike

I’d like to comment on Crystal Ward’s excellent letter to the editor (“Water rate hike ‘drastic’ in trying times,” May 25) regarding the increase of water rate in Lewiston — I totally agree with her. I’ve been tracking the unit cost for water and sewer since prior to 2013. Although it’s true that the water […]

Cartoon for Friday, June 4

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Paul Baribault: ‘Politer and friendlier discourse’ good for all

This week Donald Trump reportedly told allies that he expects to be reinstated to the presidency by August. And at a QAnon-linked conference his pardoned former aide, Gen. Michael Flynn, acknowledged when asked that this “should happen” through a Myanmar-type military coup, a threat he later walked back, though it’s a belief that QAnon followers […]

Mary Roussel: School budget needs Auburn’s votes

The Auburn school budget referendum will be held Tuesday, June 8. This budget has been carefully developed and approved by the Auburn School Committee, and reviewed and approved by the Auburn City Council. Maine law requires a city-wide vote for its final approval. The voter turnout for this annual budget vote is usually very low, […]

Cartoon for Thursday, June 3