We are truly blessed to have Gov. Mills at the helm during this stressful, challenging time here in Maine! Can you imagine the mess we’d be in if Paul LePage were still governor? Just look at some of the other Republican-governed states: Arizona, Texas, Florida. It takes a strong, clear-thinking person to stand his or […]

Yet one more personal safety issue on which Sen. Susan Collins needs to separate herself from President Trump is his provocative stance on the police violence we are suffered to watch daily. I was an ER doctor for 30-plus years at Eastern Maine Medical Center and Maine Region 4 EMS medical director for 20. Not […]

I am all for clean energy. Maine’s water resource is abundant, so hydro makes sense combined with hydro’s capacity to produce large amounts of energy. Solar works efficiently in the Southwest, but remember: Maine’s other claim to fame is that it belongs to the transitional forest of the boreal forest biome. These forests need protecting. […]

Many, many Maine business owners and residents were angry, disgruntled and vindictive at Gov. Mills in March, April, May and into June about imposing a 14-day quarantine mandate on out-of-state visitors. The blowback was outrageous. Naysayers said Maine couldn’t tell people to come and visit and then have to shelter in place for 14 days. […]

How and when children will be returning to schools in the fall is an issue that is being discussed and thought about by all educators, parents, administrators and the general public. So important. So sensitive. So critical. It is my deepest hope that the one person we absolutely ignore in this discussion is the president […]

As a graduate student at Columbia University in 1968 and participant in student sit-ins and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, I broke with rioters’ practice of burning the American flag. I believed their actions were counterproductive and served to alienate that large segment of Middle America, World War II veterans and their families, who were […]

PORTLAND Parades to honor Opportunity Alliance volunteers The Opportunity Alliance (TOA) will hold drive-through recognition events at multiple locations in southern Maine Tuesday and Wednesday in recognition of its 115 senior companions and foster grandparents. These men and women, ages 62-92, volunteered over 100,000 hours in schools, child development centers, Head Start programs, and home […]

Re: “Bust of Penobscot Nation WWII vet to be placed at Omaha Beach” (July 2, Page B1): I read, with great admiration, the Associated Press story on Charles Shay published in the July 2 Press Herald. What an honor to have his bust displayed at Omaha Beach, where he was in the first wave during […]