After reading your newspaper’s Feb. 22 article, “Union votes ‘no confidence’ in Mayor Sheline,” the first question I asked myself, “Haven’t we had enough negative news in Lewiston to last a lifetime?” The next question was how the union president ever got elected with so little knowledge of collective bargaining and how a town or […]
Voting with rich Republicans appears to be an emerging pattern with Congressman Jared Golden. He was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans against the Build Back Better bill designed to provide badly-needed services for Mainers and to address climate change. He voted consistently with Republicans against the ban of the AR-15 until he […]
Next month’s Lewiston City Council election is too important for people to fail to vote. Four obstructionist city councilors, including Lee Clement representing our Ward 6, have been accused of illegally conducting city business in a bar. We need trust and transparent representatives on the council. Thus, my wife and I will be casting our […]
I think it is about time we start electing people to the Lewiston City Council who are ready and able to meet the needs of middle class taxpayers. Along with other senior citizen voters, we live at 46 Rosedale St. leading to Ham Street and the dead end above. These two roads have been destroyed […]
I recently got a letter from Money Metals Exchange asking me to call members of the Maine Joint Taxation Committee and to ask them to support Auburn state Sen. Eric Brakey’s bill, LD 1051. He proposes in this bill to ban Maine sales tax on the sale of gold and silver bullion and coins. I […]