By Sen. Kimberley Rosen I have had the good fortune to serve in the Maine House of Representatives from 2004 to 2012 and now in the State Senate since 2014 and what a difference a few years can make. Serving in the minority in the legislature during my first several years, I witnessed budget deficits, …
Dear Editor: I would like to pay tribute to a special friend of mine, Conrad Beaulieu. Conrad lived a life of service to others. I didn’t know him when he was serving in the Army in Okinawa, serving as a missionary in Guatemala or taking care of his mother in her last years while teaching …
Dear Editor: As we have our summer home on MDI, our most frequently read newspaper is the Islander, but we often get the EA from the rack or the digital version when at home in Ohio. Anyway, I noticed recently that the poems, usually by James Russell Wiggins, have not been showing up under or …
Dear Editor: Recently I went to medicare.gov to compare next year’s Part D plans for myself and my husband. After registering, listing my prescriptions and the drugstore I use, the website showed a list of available plans with their total costs (drugs plus premiums). Clicking for detailed information about one of the less expensive plans, …
Dear Editor: A nursery rhyme, with apology to Little Miss Muffet. Little Don Trump Sat on his rump And told Turkey invasion’s OK. Then Putin said, “Fine, now Syria’s mine, and the Kurds will be frightened away.” Virginia Hawrylycz Surry
Dear Editor: As luck would have it, over the past weekend I stumbled upon Vol. 1, No. 129 of The Ellsworth Daily News dated Feb. 26, 1934 (and costing 2 cents). The following article caught my eye: “One Week from Today” One week from today Ellsworth elects its first City Council, and from the nine …
Dear Editor: I have no right to write this letter. I do not live in Ellsworth, do not pay taxes in Ellsworth, and I no longer work in Ellsworth. I do, however, appreciate beauty, and I will use that as my “permission” platform. I read with dismay the article concerning the Ellsworth Library in the …
Dear Editor: I agree with the editorial in the Nov. 8 edition, “Relieving pressure on jails.” The best way to reduce crime is to stop arresting and jailing so many people. The problem with the editorial is that it’s plagiarized. The Portland Press Herald and Kennebec Journal did a very similar editorial about a week …
Editor’s note: Brooklin author/photographer Richard J. Leighton creates the popular “In the Right Place” posts online about life and nature in Maine. He shares a post the second Thursday of each month in The Ellsworth American. Get real about Thanksgiving By Richard Leighton We have it on good authority that the quizzical look on the …
By Paul Mills Tuesday’s statewide ballot included a proposed constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to pass a law to make it easier for persons who are physically unable to sign a citizen initiative or people’s veto petition. This election was a special landmark for a constitutional question. The vote came just a few days …
By Sen. Angus S. King Jr. As winter approaches, Maine people are busy preparing for low temperatures, high snowfalls and a holiday season that seems to grow a little longer each year. With so much to do (and shorter days making it even harder to get it all done), I know how easy it is …
To the Editor: For far too long Americans have conflated democracy and capitalism. Abetted by so-called “corporate personhood” that conflation has only worsened in the past two or three decades and it is now ever more clear that capitalism has won and that American democracy is in retreat. Capitalism — at least as currently practiced …
