I agree with Barbara Bowling’s May 9 letter (“Let’s demonstrate for the planet”). However, voting is a more effective form of protest over the lack of progress our federal government is making toward reducing the cause of global warming: burning coal, oil and gas. Current climate policies around the world put us on track to […]

Why do we have a Maine State Liquor Agency when only 17 states have a liquor agency? It is a leftover from the need to control the sale of liquor after the repeal of Prohibition. The state of Maine tries to control something that it doesn’t need to control — just let market forces operate […]

I liked and appreciated the letter from David Chase in the May 11 Press Herald (“142 Free Street is an asset, not a hindrance”). It was short and decisive. And it outlines a positive constructive course of action for the Portland Museum of Art at the present point in its life, bypassing the vexed issue […]

Why would former President Donald Trump’s advisers be concerned about how supporters might view a potential running mate who killed two animals when the Trump administration’s botched response led to thousands of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Do they not remember the former president told a crowd, on Jan. 6, 2021, to “stop the steal” […]

In a May 10 Press Herald op-ed, the director of the Capital Area New Mainers Project, Chris Myers Asch, shares why he loves Israel (“How can a liberal love Israel?”). At a time when Israel is responsible for over 35,000 deaths and many thousands more missing under the rubble, the writer decides to share his […]

I am writing in response to a dairy farmer’s April 25 submission, “Renewable natural gas will help Maine reach its climate goals.” I fully support the anaerobic (without oxygen) digestion of manure; the process can, indeed, allow methane to be captured through a biological process and then utilized as a fuel. That is a winning […]

I write as an educator of our future Maine educators and a mother of a kindergarten student. Standardized test scores can hold some credibility to create data of the academic Maine learners; however, they actually best create a narrow scope of each learner that does more harm than good to those learners and the teachers, […]