It is hard not to understand why there is such division in our country. We get our information from very different sources – from social media to investigative reporting. We are shaped by that to which we give our attention. Lord Acton, the English historian, politician, and writer (1834 –1902) recommended: “When you perceive a […]

Many Republican state lawmakers contend that Maine Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin’s free-speech rights were violated when he was temporarily replaced because of his social media posts questioning the integrity of our election and the efficacy of masking. Of course they do, because many of them espouse the same “opinions.” If they want to spout […]

Re: “His world is the oyster” (Jan. 24, Page F1): Staff Writer Bob Keyes wrote a very nice article about a company doing its best to revive the coastal Maine economy in a (semi)-traditional fashion, but did he consider the irony of how he described it? He began by informing readers of how West Point […]

I am writing to express opposition to the massive “closed” salmon pen operation proposed for Frenchman Bay. American Aquafarms, based in Portland and organized recently by the Norwegian company Global AS, is proposing a gigantic salmon farm. Plans are to place 30 sea pens, each 150 feet wide, on two leases, totaling 100 acres in […]

American Aquafarms, a multimillion-dollar company, has applied to lease over 100 acres of the ocean for salmon farming in lucrative Frenchman Bay fishing grounds. The proposed dual leases are to cover 50 and 60 acres on the ocean surface, but there is no telling how much additional space the pens will cover with ropes and […]

I find Bill Nemitz’s opinion pieces in the Press Herald rather delusional most times and incoherent at best. The Jan. 20 column, “The day America blessed itself,” by the self-appointed conservative basher Mr. Nemitz again attempts to blame all of the country’s faults on the 75 million voters who happen to be of a different […]

This gang can’t count straight. In a front-page story Jan. 27, Press Herald Staff Writer Eric Russell reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Lyme disease case counts are likely 10 times greater than advised previously! This is the same CDC that issues annual nationwide flu death counts that keep changing as […]

I live in York County, where there are 200,000 people age 75 and over. The only call centers are in Kittery and Sanford. Why couldn’t Maine prepare earlier? Where is the vaccine? We don’t need the money if we are dead! Marcia Deal Kittery