Every year, the Press Herald shifts from reporting rainfall totals to snow, starting around the middle or end of November. Given the amount of rain that now occurs throughout our winter months, isn’t there a way that the newspaper can find the space to report both snow and rain totals throughout the winter? Clearly with […]

I’ll admit that I’m somewhat of a news junkie. I watch and read the news religiously. My question is: Why can’t the people who get elected answer a straightforward question? A simple “yes” or “no” in many instances will answer a question. They will either deflect or act like they were asked a different question […]

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when, as if on cue, the elected GOP/MAGA legislators announced an impeachment effort to take down Maine’s secretary of state. Why? Because she was doing her job as required by Maine statute. I have long believed one of the primary causes for the political tumult we’re experiencing as […]

The 14th Amendment reads: “no person … shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion … or given aid and or comfort to…” There’s no mention of being charged or tried. According to the dictionary, “engage” is defined as “morally committed to a particular aim or cause.” Donald Trump’s cause was disrupting the peaceful transfer of […]

In Sunday’s Jan. 7 print edition of the paper, on facing pages (A10 and A11), are two interesting headlines and stories: On Page A10, “He was so well-loved and he loved everyone,” the story of a young man, Ahmir Jolliff, who was killed at his school by a 17-year-old. We don’t know the 17-year-old’s motive, […]

The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to remove former President Donald Trump’s name from the Republican primary ballot is beyond belief. I am not a lawyer, but five minutes of research revealed that the long-held legal precedent of “innocent until proven guilty” was first enshrined in American legal practice in the 1894 […]

In Mr. Moore’s opinion piece, “Censorship must be challenged; Question 2 must be challenged” (Jan. 7), he ignores the problems raised by Central Maine Power’s and Versant’s barrage of misinformation and scare tactics that were funded by the two companies. There is no longer a requirement that both sides of an argument be fairly presented […]

Recent letters by Diane Holden (Dec. 28, 2023) and Bruce Young (Dec. 27, 2023) raise questions about electric vehicle use and can be  easily answered. Holden states the electric grid “cannot handle the need for power now.” False: on the highest-demand day in 2023 (Sept. 7) the grid had 3GW of untapped capacity, according to […]