February 2020 – Page 191 – The Portland Press Herald

Letter: Bath rabies plan needs a second look

February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

The city of Bath needs to take a second look at what it’s planning to do to wildlife in order to protect humans, as officials have already unanimously decided to partner with the Department of Agriculture to set traps before the end of the month. Will this work? “The USDA cannot guarantee this is going […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Coverage of Irish election incomplete, misleading

February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

The AP report mistakenly implied that ‘the IRA was solely responsible for the death toll in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.’

Letters

Letter to the editor: Imagine what foreign spies have recorded about Trump

February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

Has it occurred to anyone how lax the security is around our clueless president? He was apparently unaware of the recordings made by Lev Parnas (an associate of the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani), including the one in which the president instructed his aides to “get rid of” the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, […]

The Forecaster

People & Business: Feb. 12

February 12, 2020February 10, 2020

Bicycle Coalition of Maine hires S. Portland woman to lead nonprofit The Bicycle Coalition of Maine announced it has hired a new executive director, following a national search. Jean Sideris will take the reins at the nonprofit on Feb. 25. Sideris, an ardent bicycle commuter and road-rider from South Portland, most recently served as the […]

Business, Food

The Wrap: Our favorite food groups – wings, beer and chocolate

by Meredith Goad February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

A Portland restaurant changes its name, and a vegan restaurant is coming to Biddeford.

American Journal, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster

New program trains new Mainers as bank tellers

by Michael Kelley February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Students in the program have former financial or business experience as professionals in their nine home countries.

Times Record Opinion

Commentary: ‘Stolen’ elections open wounds that may never heal

by Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology The Conversation February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

Allegations are flying left and right about potential – or actual – efforts to unfairly and secretly influence the outcome of the 2020 election. It’s a time when political scientists and constitutional scholars like to look back on other times when the electoral process was, you might say, helped along by practices that either were […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Protect at-risk students, educators by voting ‘no’ on 1

February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

As a retired educator of many years, including principal of two elementary schools in Maine, I witnessed firsthand what it meant to allow parents to refuse to have their children immunized against certain communicable diseases, claiming religious and philosophical differences. School nurses all over Maine have dealt with this issue for years, since it is […]