In your July 8 edition, The Associated Press reported (Dispatches, Page A5) that “Amtrak plans to spend $7.3 billion to replace 83 passenger trains.” U.S. taxpayers will be footing the bill via contracts with a German manufacturer, Siemens AG. Wouldn’t it be nice to see these types of contracts go to American manufacturers? Bath Iron […]

Thanks to Portland for resuming the July 4th fireworks on the Eastern Prom this year. Almost a half hour of often spectacular displays, capped by a fantastic three-minute grand finale, provided a stirring celebration of the resiliency that has made this country great. Kudos to Central Maine Pyro for putting on a faultless show, after […]

Several recent letters to this paper have misunderstood and mischaracterized critical race theory. It doesn’t assert, as Pamela Brant writes, that all whites are racist and should be shamed, and all blacks are oppressed victims. Rather, it re-examines history and concludes that individual racism cannot explain our racist past, so American society must be structurally […]

I am responding to the Washington Post story “Flying is a mess this summer,” which I read in the July 6 Press Herald. Yes, it is, and the reasons given – booking with time to spare, taking a direct flight, not checking a bag, etc. are all fine – for normal times. Sadly, we are […]

I’m writing about a letter in the July 4 Maine Sunday Telegram headlined “Partisan Supreme Court weakens our democracy” (Page D3). My father and uncles served in our military during World War II, and I served during Vietnam. Those wars tested our mettle. Our country has even survived the very costly Civil War. I can […]

In your July 4 edition, Richard Riese from Wiscasset writes (Voice of the People, “Collins stands with America’s past,” Page D3) that our Maine delegation has “a duty to stand up against those states that seek to constrain the fundamental right of their citizens to vote.” I don’t know Mr. Riese, but I’m guessing he’s […]

Good news. Boyne Resorts, parent company of Sunday River Resort and Sugarloaf, is serious about mitigating climate change. Boyne endorsed the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 2307, the first, best step toward capping the global average temperature increase to a target that avoids the most disastrous impacts of climate change. Global warming has […]

Sha’Carri Richardson is already a superhero to so many, but here she is on the verge of influencing an entire generation of younger people who are behind her and the rest of us, no matter which generation we belong to. She has acknowledged her mistake in choosing to use pot, even knowing she was breaking […]