Oil and gas companies will spend more than $500 billion this year on identifying, extracting and producing new oil and gas supplies to return record profits to shareholders, according to the International Energy Agency. Less than 5% of their production and exploration investments have been spent on clean energy sources in recent years. Island nations, […]

With all the noise about abortion, pro and con, I have not heard anything about the deaths that would occur if women lost the right to abort pregnancies. Yes, there would be women who would die if they could not get a safe and legal abortion. Why do I know this? Years ago, I knew […]

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries hold up the gravity of nuclear weapons and remind us of the significant risks caused by providing weapons for the war Russia started in Ukraine. Instead of seeking a diplomatic path to avoid greater disaster, the United States continues to spend billions of dollars on fighting. To help understand […]

As a subscriber to Martin’s Point Health Care, I was chagrined, at least, to read about my provider getting their hands caught in the cookie jar (Aug. 4). What disturbs me is this statement: “As part of the settlement, Martin’s Point was not required to admit to any wrongdoing.” Why not? Did they – or […]

Over 3,000 bills were heard by the 2023 Maine Legislature. Many were defeated, but L.D. 445, sponsored by Sen. Joe Baldacci, unanimously passed the Senate and House and was carried over by the Appropriations Committee to the second session. Will it finally pass? I don’t know. A major reason this bill got this far was […]

Re: “Commentary: Henrietta Lacks settlement is bigger than one family’s victory” (Aug. 6, Page D1): In the late 1950s and early 1960s, I did tissue culture to study cancer, first in high school at Roswell Park Hospital in Buffalo, New York, then in college at St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. HeLa was the staple […]

I am very pleased that the Press Herald and its sister publications will continue to keep me and my fellow Mainers informed under its new ownership. I was also happy that your many fine reporters will stay on the job. As a onetime reporter and longtime letter writer and opinion columnist, I am well aware […]

I’m immensely proud that Maine is a leader in our nation’s growing pro-union labor movement. Recently, Staples workers in Brunswick did something I view as courageous – they petitioned to form the first Staples union in our entire country. There are nearly 1,000 Staples retail stores in the U.S., and it is hardworking Mainers who […]