February 2020 – Page 276 – The Portland Press Herald

Guest column: Civil discourse in contentious times

by By Susan Michael Guest column February 4, 2020February 3, 2020

Most of us have experienced walking into a room where we do not know anyone. We have all felt that slightly uneasy, yet anticipatory feeling before we reach out to introduce ourselves. I had that feeling six years ago when I attended my first meeting of the Current Events Forum at Curtis Library in Brunswick. […]

Maine Commercial Real Estate: January Transactions

by WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY MAINELAND CONSULTANTS February 4, 2020February 27, 2020

Sales, leasing, retail and industrial activity.

Bicentennial, Local & State, News

On this date in Maine history: Feb. 4

by Joseph Owen February 4, 2020March 30, 2020

Feb. 4, 1953: Prolific writer Ben Ames Williams, the author of “Come Spring” and “Leave Her to Heaven” and ardent chronicler of rural Maine life, dies in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 63. Born in Macon, Mississippi, and raised in Jackson, Ohio, where his father owned the Jackson Standard Journal newspaper, Williams grew up […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Old Orchard ‘Jeopardy!’ champion a standout in more ways than one

February 4, 2020February 3, 2020

By taking a moment on air to remember two victims of Maine’s opioid crisis, Dennis Coffey made good use of his national platform.

Letters

Letter to the editor: Rebuke of ‘sloppy gun owners’ not grounded in reality

February 4, 2020February 3, 2020

Your Our View of Jan. 21 (“Pro-gun groups should denounce sloppy gun owners“) was some of the most honest babble I’ve read in your paper for some time. You imply that we (the gun owners) are supposed to go after the “sloppy gun owners” when they forget about a gun in their baggage, etc. I […]

Times Record Opinion

Letters: Republicans’ impeachment dilemma; Illinois students want to know more about Maine

February 4, 2020February 3, 2020

Republicans’ impeachment dilemma “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other…” [Matt: 6:24]. And this, in a Biblical nutshell, is the Republicans’ dilemma with Trump’s impeachment trial. It is a foregone conclusion that the […]

Maine Commercial Real Estate

Feature Property: Payne Road Crossing in Scarborough

by SPONSORED BY MALONE COMMERCIAL BROKERS February 4, 2020February 27, 2020

Both are located in one of Maine’s most coveted regions, close to the natural beauty of the rugged coast and the urban convenience of cities along the I-295 corridor.

Times Record Opinion

John L. Micek: A Senate only a Roman emperor could love

by John L. Micek Guest column February 4, 2020February 3, 2020

The next time someone tells you the U.S. Senate is the world’s greatest deliberative body, your answer should be no longer than two words: Marco Rubio. Here’s what the Republican senator from Florida, and one-time Leader of the Free World aspirant, had to say about the impeachment trial that will likely wrap up this week […]