As Waterville Mayor, Paul Mayor LePage’s public record of successful service with a politically diverse constituency shows he is a true leader and not just another political hack. Perhaps more important, however, is his great credibility as a successful businessman.

On March 23, 2004, Bristol residents convened their annual town meeting at the Bristol Consolidated School. It was one of the better-attended town meetings in recent history.

Small town living allows us to enjoy the flavors of community on a regular basis. You could live in a big city, as many current Lincoln County residents have, and never even know your neighbor’s name.

This campaign season I have read many letters based on half-truths or exaggerations and usually figured they were just partisan bickering, but when Larry Grimard implies that my wife (Lisa Miller), a legislator for the last six years, is not telling the truth then it is time to speak up. (“Not all true,” LCN, Page 11, 10/14/10)

I write in support of Jon McKane’s District 51 candidacy for the Maine House of Representatives.

It was something of a surprise to find out Monday morning someone in the U.S. Senate attached a rider to a routine defense appropriations bill that if approved, would have repealed the half-baked Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, which was forced on the military during President Clinton’s watch in 1993.

There is never a good time to start an unpleasant conversation. Anyone who has ever had to be the bearer of bad news knows that.

We would like to thank all who were involved in the incredibly successful supper and yard sale benefit for the late Mikie Simmons Aug. 28. Although the outcome inevitably was not what we had hoped, it was a wonderful tribute to Mikie.

I’m writing in response to Mr. Michael Uhl’s letter “Send Democrats to Augusta and Washington” which appeared in the Sept. 9 edition of the LCN. I was especially taken by his statement “folks paying their fair share.”

To the Editor:Having been involved in politics and having attended party conventions, I learned two things. Conventions are free drinks and food at a candidate’s hospitality suites. Party platforms are a joke and no candidate adheres to them. Paul LePage is no more committed to the Republican platform than Libby Mitchell is to the Democrat […]

We give Thomas Steele-Maley credit; if he’s right, and no one will know for years exactly how right or wrong he is, he has dreamed up a model for a 21st-century education.

“It’s the economy, stupid:” a phrase used by the 1992 Clinton campaign. Could there be any phrase more appropriate today here in Maine?

It is this country’s belief that if you subsidize something, it will eventually get better. Does anyone believe the stimulus was for the poor?

Most people are convinced politicians are out of touch. It is easy to believe big wheels like the President and the Senators and Congressmen don’t relate to the average man/woman. In light of the amount of money it takes to run for a federal office, we concede the point.