In the realm of student loan forgiveness, opinions get tossed around like caps at a graduation ceremony. On Aug. 27, Maine Millennial columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal advocated for President Biden’s debt pardoning while castigating Rep. Jared Golden’s opposition. I disagree on both fronts. Regarding debt forgiveness, simple economics disproves its efficacy. Debt forgiveness fails to reduce […]
The newspaper on Aug. 6 included a Victoria Hugo-Vidal opinion regarding electric power (“The Maine Millennial: Pine Tree Power will be a change for the better”). She favors the proposed public Pine Tree Power over the current privately owned and operated Central Maine Power Co. Presumably, public ownership will be better and less expensive than […]
I’ve been confused by recent letters and Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s Aug. 6 column on Pine Tree Power (“The Maine Millennial: Pine Tree Power will be a change for the better”). They have suggested that the reason to vote for this change is to move us, as a state, to green power. I thought that this vote […]
As I read Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s The Maine Millennial column last week (“A long-term view on climate requires near-term sacrifice,” Aug. 13), I was reminded that just two weeks ago, as my husband and I drove from Maine to Michigan, we crossed into Canada at Niagara Falls and drove the King’s Highway 401 west through Ontario to […]