Re: “Hundreds of Portland residents attend forum on proposed homeless shelter” (Sept. 8): As a resident of Rowe Avenue for 60 years, and after a 47-year career in health care, I have some understanding of the challenges and obligations that city officials have before them. Two years after they started studying the idea of a […]

I would like to congratulate Ruth and Leonard MacPhee for such a strong and cogent defense of Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose. The MacPhees’ letter in Monday’s Press Herald makes it abundantly clear that they base their objections to abortion on a strong religious belief. The very first sentence of the […]

Thank you for your coverage of Sen. Susan Collins’ quandary over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. I wrote to her recently noting that she would remember forwarding my new patriotic hymn to the Office of the Senate Chaplain for possible use in future events. In a personally signed reply on notepaper, she thanked me for […]

You do not need to consult a child psychologist to figure out whether the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly wrenching children away from their parents at the southern border is traumatizing for those children. Just ask any parent. But I submit that there is more at work here than the natural reaction of any parent […]

Republican Senate leaders, who refused to consider then-President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland under the pretext that it was necessary to honor the will of the people in the 2016 election, continue to press for the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by a president whose lack of fitness […]