My life partner recently bought us pickleball lessons for our anniversary. There is an insightful rule in the game that we should all consider when going to the polls next. If you hit a shot and your opponent calls it out, then the shot is out. The one exception would be that if the opponent’s […]

Loud huzzahs go to Jasper Curtis for his timely and thoughtful suggestion that the Portland section of Interstate 295 needs to be replaced with a boulevard (Maine Voices, Oct. 18). Five years ago, a number of colleagues and I recommended that 1-295, between Congress Street and Washington Avenue, be “brought to the ground” and replaced […]

Two referendums on Portland’s ballot address short-term rentals. Question B will outlaw most short-term rentals. It will hurt Portland’s economy, force Mainers to sell island homes that have been in their families for generations and make life more difficult for middle-class property owners who depend on the extra income they receive from short-term rentals. It […]

“The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather agency said,” began an Associated Press story on Page A3 of the Oct. 27 Portland Press Herald. Not that we’ve again failed to lower our rate of polluting Earth’s atmosphere, which is killing many plants and animals, including […]

The current Democrat-controlled Congress must be voted out of power for our self-preservation. Combined with their “no-petroleum-products-by-2030″ energy policies, they have spent us into recession. They’re hostile to police, faith, our Constitution and the basic needs of real people. They’re out of control with deficit spending, creating several multitrillion-dollar bills passed solely by Democrats. Groceries […]

I am writing to thank the Portland Press Herald for its fair and unbiased reporting about the election. I want to point out that Sen. Susan Collins received little attention for crossing the aisle to help important legislation, on gun control and electoral reform. I’m a lifelong Democrat, born in Maine. We need more reporting […]

As a working mother, I cannot stress enough the importance of paid family medical leave. When I learned I was pregnant, my small employer did not yet have a policy in place, but they worked quickly to ensure that I would be able to take time, with compensation, and be able to return to work […]

I hope Portland voters think past the feel-good vibes of the Charter Commission recommendations. Take Question 3, for example, a Clean Elections fund for local races sounds good until you consider that somebody – the Portland taxpayer – has to pay for all the politicking that politics entail. There ain’t no such thing as a […]

Republican Paul LePage proclaimed himself “Trump before Trump” several years ago, deluded that being aligned with the would-be dictator and wannabe king would be of political advantage to him during his term as governor. Well, here we are again, and he wants the people of Maine to think he has changed his stripes? I don’t […]

On Nov. 8, Scarborough residents will be asked to approve a $12.9 million bond for a massive and largely unnecessary expansion of the public library. The plan would nearly triple the size of the library from 13,000 to 35,000 square feet. This huge expansion comes despite fewer than 2 percent of Scarborough residents indicating any […]