The Second Amendment is meaningless in today’s world. “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Are we going to arm everyone: theater ushers, kindergarten teachers, priests and ministers? The Second Amendment is a ludicrous loophole, kept […]

Daniel Bryant’s March 8 letter to the editor describes problems stemming from linkage of health insurance with jobs, and wonders, in the words of the Press Herald-written headline, whether “employment-based health insurance needs rethinking.” West Virginia teachers confirmed that insurance-job linkage needs rethinking. One striking teacher’s sign read, “Will teach for insurance,” and she told […]

The children are running the households and the schools. Now they want to run the country! Richard F. O’Brien III South Portland

On March 24, led by the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students and their loved ones, will take to the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities and towns all over this country to demand that Congress enact legislation to prevent gun violence. These young people have shown incredible leadership and […]

What is the message our society is giving to students like Meghan Scott Curran from Falmouth, who is performing at Footlights Theatre in a play about the Holocaust? Through the voices of survivors, including the late and well-beloved Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt of Portland, she has learned about the atrocities Nazis committed and the compassion […]

In response to the letter “Make a difference, students: Be a friend to the outcasts” (March 16, Page A8): Bullying is a problem, indeed – it is one that our kids have been screaming at us to do something about for ages – but “walk up, not out” conflates equally important but non-identical issues. The […]