With reference to the announcement in the March 5 paper about print reductions and layoffs planned for the Maine Trust for Local News, I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that perhaps your dire financial situation has little to do with print versus digital, but everything to do with the fact that you […]

Maine Monitor Editor Kate Cough wrote an informative piece last month about the need for “compensation rules for solar on farmland.” Questions were raised about amounts of compensation to farmers, as well as the potential for “’dual use’ panels that allow for some agricultural activity to continue, like growing blueberries or grazing sheep.” In the […]

I was dismayed to read — in a real newspaper — the article “Maine Trust for Local News plans print reductions, layoffs.” I’m glad the Press Herald will still be delivered — for now. I’m sorry to read that the little local papers, such as the Forecaster and American Journal, will be digital only. I […]

Sen. King spoke well when he told his fellow senators, “This is a very dangerous moment. We’ve got to wake up.” “It’s our responsibility to protect the Constitution,” King said. “But to … say, ‘Well, we’re going stand back and watch as this happens and the courts are going to take care of it,’ that’s […]

I was pleased to see your report that Rep. Laurel Libby was censured by the Maine Legislature for using a social media post of a child she alleged to be transgender to score political points. Rep. Libby appears to enjoy being in the thick of controversies that appeal to the extreme right, like vaccination or […]

Feb. 28, 2025, was an appalling example of diplomacy. President Trump and Vice President Vance made efforts to humiliate and have Ukraine President Zelenskyy cower to their demands. They acted not as the leaders of the most powerful country in the world. They acted not with the remoteness understanding of the tragedy that has befallen […]

On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 140 countries worldwide. During the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers were sent home, but today more than 3,500 volunteers are serving and the […]

I am so saddened at the message being sent to transgender girls — by not only fellow students, but adults, legislators and of course the entire U.S. administration. Imagine the agony they go through, first by feeling they’re in the wrong bodies, then the decision to change, then telling family who may or may not […]