2021 – Page 133 – The Portland Press Herald

Maine Voices: The historic change that’s become the new normal

by Andrew Young Special to the Press Herald December 16, 2021December 15, 2021

The Maine law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect Dec. 29, 2012. A lot of people are happier – and the fabric of society remains intact.

Times Record Opinion

The Maine Idea: Unvaccinated Mainers need help, not contempt

by Douglas Rooks The Maine Idea December 16, 2021December 15, 2021

By now, the storyline, and the statistics, are almost mind-numbingly familiar. In rural counties of Maine, as in those of neighboring states, COVID rates have gone off the charts amid the worst wave of the pandemic. Hospitals are overwhelmed, health networks are overstretched and the National Guard has been called out. Yet we haven’t focused […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Carbon pricing needed to slow down climate change

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021

Douglas Polk’s Nov. 28 letter to the editor (“Keeping energy costs low must be on Maine senators’ agenda”) shows a lack of understanding about what is happening to our world. While I agree that we need to be concerned about energy costs, the way to deal with this is to put a price on carbon […]

Meetinghouse, Opinion

Gail Caiazzo, Saco: Again coming in loud and clear

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021

In our youth, we take our hearing for granted. High pitch, low pitch, in between pitch … all comes in loud and clear. Then life happens and slowly, gradually, for some of us the clearness is replaced by a lot more fuzziness. It occurs so quietly, like a thief in the night. Very annoying. A […]

Meetinghouse, Opinion

Dorothy Mayville, Springvale: ‘She’s old enough to know better’

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021

1957. I was 11, helping my sixth-grade teacher host an open house to celebrate her 25th wedding anniversary. The house was crowded with many upstanding people from our small-town area of Vermont. I wore a blue print dress with a gathered skirt that my mother had sewn and felt shy but very grown up as […]

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: First Amendment protects our right to live our freedoms

by Christian Cotz Special to the Press Herald December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

On the 230th anniversary of the amendment’s official adoption, let’s consider why the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition were bundled together.