I would like to ask you a very important question: Would you like to see a transportation system in Maine that would provide a clean, affordable, sustainable, less noisy and less congested environment? If yes (and why not?), please read Paul Weiss’ timely March 16 Maine Voices column (“Intercity passenger rail could solve many of […]

I applaud Norine Seymour, R.N., for voicing her opinion (Maine Voices, March 8) on how a union can disrupt the integrity of nursing at Maine Medical Center. I too am a proud nurse of many years at MMC, serving the cancer community. The patients and families I have met over the years are our family […]

Re: “Maine Voices: Essential workers have earned the hazard pay Portland voters approved” (March 10), by Caleb Horton: Mr. Horton mentioned Steve DiMillo is against hazard pay, but what Mr. Horton did not tell the readers is that Steve acknowledges and abides by the referendum: fact, not fiction. I have worked for Steve for 17 years. […]

As we move into the recovery stage, after this long ordeal, this might be a good time to correct a serious injustice that has been quietly accepted in the U.S. for the past century: the taxation of labor income at a higher rate than investment income. The preferential tax treatment of capital gains income is […]

In a recent editorial, “Our View: ICE should say what it’s up to in Maine” (March 11), the Press Herald editorial board brings up an important point: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates without transparency. The line “What is ICE up to in Maine? Don’t ask ICE” sums up this notion. We don’t know exactly […]

Re: “Crisis far from over for Maine women suffering prolonged unemployment” (March 16): College students are some of the COVID-19 pandemic’s most affected groups. Young adults who graduated in 2020 and anyone graduating this year are unable to find professional jobs. However, it is the students who are still in college and need part-time or […]

In Bruce Poliquin’s world, down seems to be up, and up seems to be down. In a column in the March 13 Press Herald, he voiced his opposition to HR 1, a bill that passed the House of Representatives on March 8. The aim of HR 1 is to expand voting access and improve accountability […]

I got my second Moderna vaccine shot two weeks ago. Does that mean that I will not get the COVID infection? No! The efficacy of the Moderna vaccine, two weeks after the second shot, is about 95 percent for the general population, according to a Food and Drug Administration analysis, but only about 86 percent […]