You made my Monday morning better by printing Edgar Allen Beem’s take on our current national situation (“All this governing by vendetta may not last that long,” Feb. 3). It has been quite a while since I have read something he wrote; ever a bright light. Don Marsee Puyallup, Wash.

On Dec. 4, 2024, I sent a certified letter, return receipt requested, to an address in Maine via the USPS. On Jan. 4, 2025, I went back to the post office that I sent the mail from, to make an inquiry about it. They directed me to the post office in the town that handled […]

I believe it is high time the editors of the Press Herald held Sen. Susan Collins’ feet to the fire. For years now, I’ve written and called Collins when she has voted against what I perceive to be my interests. She has not been very responsive, or more correctly, the responses have been unsatisfactory. She […]

I would like to share my experience with tariffs so that others understand how they work. During Donald Trump’s first presidency, when I was running Peapod Jewelry, my business in Edgecomb, Maine, I was searching for jewelry boxes that were made of paper or cardboard, so they could be recycled, and displayed our distinctive logo […]

Tobacco use and nicotine addiction take an enormous financial toll on individuals, families and communities in our state. Smoking-related illnesses cost Maine more than $811 million every year in health care expenses alone. But there is a silver lining. Tobacco prevention programs in Maine, the only state to fully fund such programs at the level […]

I am writing in response to the editorial detailing Maine’s fourth graders’ National Assessment of Educational Progress scores (“Maine in no position to shrug at ‘nation’s report card,’” Feb. 2). I am a teacher with very high standards and would never say that we can’t do better at the teaching of reading and math. However, […]

It’s clear who understands cannabis and who doesn’t. The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is clearly in the latter category. Claims that inhaling combustible smoke is “safe” and “clean” are not only misleading, they are flat-out false. Combustible anything is never “safe” or “clean,” regardless of what it’s tested for. Testing doesn’t magically make […]

On Feb. 2, 2025, a Maine Turnpike Authority service garage, housing millions of dollars of snowplow trucks, burned in Auburn. It has been reported that the “State Fire Marshal classified the fire as ‘undetermined,’ citing several accidental causes that may have played a hand in the fire.” That is insufficient. In December 2021, a little […]