Roy Smoot News Today

We can save lives together. Political banter has been thrown around in press conferences, on our State House legislative floors, in rallies, with seemingly poor regard for the lives lost to gun violence and families living with abysmal grief in the name of “rights” and comparing Maine to other American cities. House Minority Leader Billy […]

Civilians never enlist to be murdered, destroyed, maimed; to be collateral damage or bomb and missile targets (“A Russian strike on a city market in eastern Ukraine kills 17 and wounds dozens, officials say,” Sept. 6). Not anywhere. Not in Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, Dresden, Vietnam, Syria, Ethiopia, Tigray, central Africa, Israel, West Bank, Hiroshima. Not […]

Letter

In “Slow and steady negotiation best route for Maine tribes” on June 11, columnist Jim Fossel wrote about Wabanaki tribal nations’ efforts to have their sovereignty restored by our Maine Legislature; sovereignty was removed in 1980 by the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act. Two bills, L.D. 2004 and L.D. 2007 (tabled until January), will […]

Thank you for printing the column by June and Roy Smoot regarding Sen. Angus King’s unexplained opposition to the proposed Advancing Equality for Wabanaki Nations Act (“Maine Voices: Sen. King must rethink position on Wabanaki access to federal laws,” Jan. 11). The authors described my anger and frustration perfectly. Sen. King has refused to reconsider […]

He has not offered any solid, reasonable or well explained reasons for his opposition to the Advancing Equality for Wabanaki Nations Act. Why?

Every moment is a moment to do what is right. Every single moment. No exceptions. As most readers are aware, because of letters and articles from the past year, hundreds of tribal nations in our country receive benefits from over 150 federal laws passed since 1980. Maine’s Wabanaki tribal nations have not benefited from those. […]

The current attempt to recall two Kennebunk representatives to the RSU 21 School Board is fraught with problems, one reader writes.