What do Donald Trump, Cher and John Mishler have in common? Answer: we will all be 79 in 2025. A problem? Well, some 11 months ago, there was a “…national obsession with respect to the age of both our presidential candidates (Joe Biden and Donald Trump),” (“Use your moral compass to vote,” June 29, 2024 […]

Mount Vernon and Vienna, population 2,334, share a library whose staff is the epitome of grace and good manners. The library offers all kinds of services including inter-library loan, which I use a lot, so I asked for an unusual book published in 1995 and was informed delivery was not guaranteed anymore. Why? Because libraries […]

For most of my seven decades the cry has been to cut taxes for the rich, make deductions, exemptions, loopholes and outright handouts to the rich. The rich will take the money and trickle it on down to everyone with higher wages and benefits. This trickle down economics is a scam; it has never worked […]

I strongly support Rep. Laurel Libby’s right to voice her opinion on the rights of biological and nonbinary women without censure. What she should apologize for is for posting a teen’s identity and photo in any media. Every adult should know how dangerous that is to the teen in an environment where doxxing can threaten […]

President Donald Trump has introduced his beautiful tariffs to destroy the economy to save it. This is a fever dream of a fabulist. There is no plan for his marvelous revolution. Every revelation is a big surprise, like a game show. Corporations and businesses were given no heads up as to what was going to […]

The canceled $35 million grant to Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and Environmental would have been wasted anyway since we’ve known for decades that the primary cause of climate change and environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity and the rise in degenerative, zoonotic and environmental disease is raising animals as products. On a planet […]

To my knowledge, our legislators have yet to acknowledge that this effort by the MAGA party is a coup. It is time that our representatives and senators stop being apologists for this regime. They no longer need to feel that they are “sticking their necks out” by standing up to be counted among those trying […]

It is insulting to Maine readers that the Press Herald placed an article featuring Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent at the bottom of Page 1 on April 21. This AP article was a follow-up to the Supreme Court’s urgent ruling immediately stopping deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. It sanewashed Alito’s reasoning, ignoring his personal effort […]