As an active member of Portland’s performing arts community, I want to thank the Portland Press Herald for giving front-page coverage of the upcoming Bach festivals (“Artistic differences lead to dueling Bach festivals,” Feb. 12). It is always refreshing to read about enriching culture and arts opportunities versus the usual daily mayhem. Portland’s cultural scene […]

Another school shooting, and the anti-gun crowd comes out of the woodwork. If they really believe in their cause, why do they disappear from the scene shortly after the news cycle has run its course, then re-appear with the next school shooting? They claim they don’t want to see another school shooting. As a firearms […]

Advertised as a way to “reduce the potential for … fraud” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and “provide nutritious food” to SNAP enrollees, President Trump’s new Harvest Box program creates more problems than it solves. The current SNAP benefit system is run on electronic benefit transfer cards, which have actually worked to decrease fraud […]

As we continue to be educated about the extent of sexual assault and sexual harassment in our country, we see a variety of people using #MeToo on social media and in the press. I feel that many of us were raised to be much too polite, and that is why when people come at us […]

If you believe that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are programs that need to be expanded, I want to tell you that Rep. Bruce Poliquin voted in favor of the Republican tax bill, Public Law No. 115-97. This plan will give trillions in tax breaks to wealthy Americans (like himself) and big corporations and will […]

Take guns out of our schools. Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in Florida, was an expert marksman because he was trained by the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program to be a sharpshooter. He had also been part of a four-person JROTC marksmanship team at the school, which had received $10,000 in funding from […]