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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 […]
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 […]