In regard to the recent letter to the editor titled, “Anti-Trump bias persists in newspaper,” lamenting that there are no facts to support claims that Trump has made numerous lies and the paper should print “the truth,” the writer should take more care in deciding what is true. The biggest and most obvious example is […]

If the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life is not a sign of our times, I do not know what is. There is already enough worrisome and upsetting news in the world. Most decent and caring people are getting sick and tired of the inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that has added fuel to the […]

If the Press Herald’s July 6 headline, “Art of Darkness,” about Jamie Wyeth’s “Unsettled” exhibition at Farnsworth Art Museum, was intended as a pun on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” it was not an apt pun. Like Conrad’s novella, the theme of Megan Gray’s feature erroneously suggests pervasive savagery underscores Wyeth’s paintings. While even the […]

On the final day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was “Make America Great Once Again.” The talking points didn’t offer suggestions on how to do that, though, focusing instead on dissent, especially anti-immigration rhetoric. I find this troubling for many reasons. Like many in Maine, I have French Canadian roots, and I only […]

I respect and honor Biden’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race. Go Kamala! The alternative is unthinkable. Christine McDuffie North Yarmouth

I am a 77-year-old lifelong Democrat. I have voted in every election, primary and general, at every level of government, since I became eligible to vote. I am one of the 14 million Democrats who voted for Joe Biden in the May primary. Difficult as it clearly was for him, I appreciate his decision to […]

While I am deeply appalled by the shooting at a Trump rally, it was not shocking. Mr. Trump and his sycophants have encouraged and promoted violence for many years, and now that very violence has come to them. They will now use this awful event to blame President Biden, because that is what they do […]

As someone who grew up in a time where cigarette smoking was commonplace and even promoted, I have seen firsthand the change in discourse regarding tobacco. Unfortunately, the discourse surrounding e-cigarettes has been grouped along with cigarettes despite these harm-reduction tools containing no tobacco. Our health organizations, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, and […]