I would like to strongly echo Mary Dunn’s May 14 letter in response to Chris Myers Asch’s love letter to the state of Israel (“How can a liberal love Israel?” May 10), a nation which is currently waging a disproportionate war against the Palestinian people of Gaza, killing tens of thousands of human beings and […]

As a history major in college who studied the rise of Hitler in Germany, I see striking parallels in leadership style between Hitler and Trump. The rhetoric of both is similar, each portraying himself as an outsider challenging a corrupt elite establishment. Both have a history of involvement with armed insurrection, Trump in the attack […]

Portland Museum of Art is a first-class museum. Can we not work to sustain this accolade instead of being preoccupied with a new multimillion dollar glass wall and trying to rearrange history, which in essence has nothing to do with art exhibitions? After all, a museum is about art and art collections, not the buildings […]

As the former chairperson of the MSAD 51 Board of Directors, I strongly advocate for the proposed bond to revamp the aging and overcrowded school campus for Cumberland and North Yarmouth. This crucial project includes constructing a new building for our youngest learners, urgent renovations to Mabel I. Wilson school, and updating our athletic fields […]

In response to Paul DiPerna and Colyn Ritter’s opinion piece on crashing teacher morale, I offer the following reply (this, of course, is personal): I was fortunate to spend close to 35 years teaching at Thornton Academy in Saco. One of the amazing things about Thornton was its leadership structure – a private school, self-perpetuating […]

As a lifelong resident and former mayor of Saco – someone who has seen the challenges our schools have faced over the past 20-plus years – I urge residents to vote “yes” on the upcoming bond referendum to fund the construction of two new elementary schools in our city. For too long, the issue of […]

I strongly oppose the decision by Gov. Mills and the Maine Department of Transportation to locate a wind port on Sears Island in Waldo County. This is wrongly being touted as the least environmentally harmful location for a port, largely based on its requiring less dredging to establish access than using an available site at […]

I believe the anti-Catholic bias of your paper is well known. As always, when responding to your condemnations of my church and her clergy, I repeat that none of us denies the egregious crimes committed by a small number of priests against children, and we pray for healing for all victims. Now comes a very […]