I recently went into a pet supply store in Windham and was surprised that none of the staff was wearing masks, and neither was a customer leaving the store. I asked the cashier why she was not wearing a mask, and she replied that she had one if I wanted her to put it on. […]

Innkeeper Ariela Zucker, in her letter of July 26, says that she wants an “answer” from the governor “since she is the one who pulled the ground from under my feet.” Ms. Zucker is mistaken. It was the coronavirus that caused the severe consequences that she and others have endured, not the governor. Indeed, we […]

It’s simple: Everyone – whether they live in Maine or abroad – deserves access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including access to safe, legal abortion. Last Wednesday, the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act was introduced in the House, making accessible reproductive health care for all one step closer to reality. This bill […]

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently voted with the minority to uphold a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. There are two possibilities, as I see it. He lied to Susan Collins about his respect for precedent, and she was naive enough to accept his word. Or […]

Eric Nevins, president of the Portland Police Superiors Officers Association, writes an op-ed (July 29) asking why Portland officials don’t stand up for our police. How sad he has to write that op-ed. Lukewarm expressions of support from the mayor and a few city councilors have not left officers feeling appreciated or understood by the […]

Recent news has me reflecting on my time in Afghanistan. In 2011, I spent a year as the commanding officer of the NATO trauma center in Kandahar, and I saw and experienced firsthand the horrors of tactical warfare. As we treated severely injured soldiers and Marines, we constantly worried that we would be the target […]

The Trump campaign is circulating plenty of “Women for Trump” signs – but none, of course, reading “Men for Trump.” Because men count for more than just a subgroup of the population? Because men differentiate themselves on the basis of their talents and occupations? Because it would affront them to lump them all together on […]

Southern Maine voters, as you head to the polls this November, please consider the fact that the people most impacted by Central Maine Power’s for-profit corridor do not want it. Nearly every town along the route has voted to oppose the corridor with overwhelming margins with several towns going as far as enacting power line […]

The Press Herald recently published a Maine Voices column by North Haven’s Courtney Naliboff, calling for leadership in fighting climate change. My great-grandparents bought land on North Haven in the 1940s, and their photographs – coupled with the stories from my grandmother and my father – tell of an island I never knew. They tell […]