We are very sad and disappointed at the South Portland City Council’s decision to ban all non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, starting this fall. We have been visiting family in Portland for 35 years now, and we were thrilled to happen upon the perfect arrangement for our annual/biannual visits to Maine. My husband’s family has been in […]

Re: “Our View: U.S. election security should be top priority” (March 2): Oh, the hypocrisy. The editors are worried about Russian intrusion in our election process. I get that. Just for laughs and giggles, would you explain to me, one more time, why showing a picture ID is so disenfranchising that you would not allow […]

It’s all over the media: gun violence within schools and what to do about it. Despite hearing children beg for change, many believe this is not the time for change. For those of you who believe that now is not the time, I challenge you to take a new viewpoint: Look at it as if […]

My family owes a lot to Bath Iron Works. My father worked there for 26 years as a blacksmith. Dad, as he so eloquently put it, “smashed the poop out of things” for eight hours a day. At the end of the day he clocked out, picked us up from school, made dinner, did laundry […]

A number of schools have suspended class time to permit students to participate in the national walkout protesting gun violence (“Portland allows students to join March 14 walkout,” March 4, Page C2). While I understand that this effort stems from a supportive place, school administrators are completely missing the point. If protesters are not missing […]