Do we need a D.A.R.E. program to reduce pedestrian and car driver deaths? Press Herald articles this month on road user fatality statistics highlight car crashes as a grim source of injury and death for Mainers. Thousands of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers (and their passengers) are injured and killed every year on Maine roads. And […]

As a senior living in the city for many years, I recently opened the paper to discover (to not much of a surprise), a raise in property taxes is under discussion. I thought, “same old, same old,” until I read further that the increase could be as high as 10%. Having retired from the school […]

I worked with a captain who had a fine suggestion for a fellow officer spending far too much time with his head in the radar cowling: “You could just look out the damned window.” I paraphrase. Did any of us need the International Court of Justice to tell us whether what we’ve been seeing in […]

The former children’s museum building in Portland must not be demolished to suit one neighboring organization. A building like this is impossible to construct given today’s skills and technology. The methods and materials used in its construction alone are reason enough to preserve this building. It is unsustainable to demolish this building. Why use energy […]

All our lives we’ve been told that America is the Good Guy, the humane country – and now, as tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children, are murdered in cold blood, we are sending the murderer more weapons. Every American ought to feel disgraced by this. John Manderino Scarborough

What am I missing here? If Donald Trump is innocent, why does he need immunity? If Trump made America great, why does he have to do it again? Doris Luther Hollis

My heartiest thanks to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for doing what they do. And that is providing us with the local news. All three Page 1 articles in the Jan. 21 Sunday paper convey stories of local interest, both statewide and particular to Portland. Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard told of the challenges Maine […]