Independence Day will be soon be upon us. We should all read the entire Declaration of Independence before then. Note how often the word “tyrant” is used? (Wonder how long it will be before President Trump will ask to be addressed as Sire or Your Majesty? It would be just one more of his wild […]

While I agree that negative signs can be distasteful during peaceful protests (“Maine should protest without insults,” June 25), I wonder how so many people can think that rude, nasty, disrespectful, demeaning comments and profanity, publicly on camera or on social media, is any different. Our elected officials can profess their religious convictions, cite passages […]

I was moved and angered by the recent letter to the editor by Elisabeth Corrales, “Maine mental health workers must guard against burnout” (June 24). I was moved by Ms. Corrales’ courage to write a letter that describes her efforts to attain support regarding her own struggles resulting from working in a high-stress, intense and […]

A recent article highlighted the fact that Maine’s climate plan is at risk due to cuts in the proposed federal budget, and I’m asking Sen. Susan Collins to vote against those cuts. The fact that the climate is changing is clear. As a kid in Maine, I don’t remember ever dealing with 90-degree days in […]

Much of our life’s learning comes to us through our own failures. That is — if we are able to acknowledge that it was our failure, and not lay it at the feet of someone else. The acknowledging piece can be challenging. Our culture, and particularly our current president, does not acknowledge failure. It is […]

I want to thank Clare Dalton for authoring the June 19 op-ed on Maine’s Death with Dignity statute (“Amend Maine’s Death with Dignity statute, reduce suffering“). Fifteen years ago, the Portland Press Herald printed an article I wrote asking for the same type of relief for people living in pain with no hope of relief […]

Your readers were subject to an opinion piece in the June 22 newspaper that was presumably written by Sen. Trey Stewart and Sarah E. Hunt (“Biden’s signature act fails Maine, feeds China“). I say presumably because it could have easily been written by a few choice prompts in ChatGPT. For instance, if you wrote the […]