The Black Lives Matter movement is not a violent movement. Like peaceful protesters before them, like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., like John Lewis, like Susan B. Anthony, Black Lives Matter calls for justice and for an end to violence. BLM protesters didn’t carry weapons or call for assassinations. But peaceful protests turned into […]

I live a few miles away from several so-called tank farms. In South Portland, they populate many acres of once-beautiful land, including shorefront property. Global Partners even has a beach along the Fore River. But to walk near these farms is to inhale thick fumes that can make you literally gasp for breath. While the […]

I believe that I am able to leap tall buildings, run faster than a speeding locomotive and possibly meet this virus head on. Why the euphoria? Last week I celebrated my 89th birthday. This week I received the second COVID vaccination injection. The light at the end of the isolation tunnel is almost visible. Visiting […]

How we easily misjudge and stereotype each other. An example being comments made in reference to Staff Writer Eric Russell’s fine article on COVID stimulus need last Wednesday (for which I was interviewed). “People who can own a house in Harpswell are wealthy.” What of those who built or bought in the boondocks, paid a […]

As recovery advocates, we are calling on the city of Portland to end the one-for-one exchange limitation at the city’s syringe service program. Portland is the only entity in Maine that has not adopted the updated guidelines released by Gov. Mills’ executive order on March 31, 2020. This executive order was developed in alignment with […]

My best friend was diagnosed with a degenerative disease at age 9. By age 15, she used a wheelchair, resulting in muscle loss she wouldn’t recover from. By 18, her family moved west. She stayed in Maine with her boyfriend until caretaking responsibilities deluged him, so west she went. I wanted to blame him for […]

I see from the Feb. 8 Press Herald that Paul LePage is likely to run for governor again in two years. This time, could someone please find Eliot Cutler a nice, cushy position before, instead of after, he hands LePage another minority victory? William Lee former Portland resident Morgantown, W.Va.