Could Gov. Paul LePage be secretly promoting Attorney General Janet Mills as a candidate for governor? Every attempt by LePage to curb her actually makes me realize what an honorable person she must be. “Gov. Janet Mills” – what a marvelous idea! And what a nice way to get us to see she could be […]

The administration recently confirmed that Gov. LePage is withholding $11.4 million in voter-approved bonds for the Land for Maine’s Future program. As a result, at least 30 projects that were approved for LMF funding are now in limbo. Over the years, the Land for Maine’s Future program has protected land of statewide and regional significance […]

If the Portland Press Herald is going to present melting Arctic sea ice as largely an opportunity for “entrepreneurial engagement” that opens up more commercial possibilities for “natural resource extraction” (“Looking for edge, Maine plunges into Arctic policy,” March 30), then good journalistic practice means you owe readers a story about the unprecedented weather, social […]

Regarding your front-page report on the Maine governor’s war on drugs (“Impassioned Gov. LePage calls for drug battle reinforcements,” April 1): In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse a public enemy. Since then the U.S. prison population has been exploding; we have the largest in the world! The Department of Justice in 2011 reported that […]