2021 – Page 2569 – The Portland Press Herald

Letter to the editor: Jail is no place for people with mental illness

March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

It’s both appalling and entirely expected to hear that Long Creek Youth Development Center has become a de facto psychiatric hospital (“Advocates: Legislation should require closure of youth prison,” March 27, Page B1). Since the U.S. started closing state psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s, U.S. jails and prisons have taken their place nationwide. By 2018, […]

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: For the well-being of all Mainers, let’s reinvest in Land for Maine’s Future

by Richard Barringer and Jerry King Special to the Press Herald March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

Supporting the LMF bond will conserve working forests, build recreation infrastructure, protect the climate and give more people access to nature’s benefits.

Letters

Letter to the editor: Don’t let small group stymie prospects for wind energy in Maine

March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

The placement of additional traps in the path of the preliminary survey boat is an uptick in the conflict between the lobster industry and wind energy. But we’ve seen this impediment to progress before. And it’s been successful. (Dragon Cement was to bring barges to Wiscasset, to be loaded at Mason Station and sent to […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: What will it take to change minds on gun control?

March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

I have been listening to the gun control debate since I was a child, when the first mass campus shooter, Charles Whitman, gunned down 45 people, killing 14, from the Tower at the University of Texas-Austin in 1966. I have been listening since the National Rifle Association voiced support for gun control the next year, […]

Maine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: Portland Chamber should apologize for working with KKK in 1923 to create city charter

by Nasreen Sheikh-Yousef Special to the Press Herald March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

The chamber must face the impact of its actions on marginalized communities and not use its outsize influence to sway the Charter Commission campaign.

Business, Food

The Wrap: New restaurants, reopenings, and a new chef

by Meredith Goad March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

Learn about Bayonne ham, cook at The Castle, and order Easter dinner.

The Forecaster

School Notebook: March 31

March 31, 2021March 29, 2021

Girl power PHS student Gold Key award winner Portland High School junior Eden Swails recently won a Gold Key from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alliance for Young Artists and Writers for her poem, “Arachnophobia.” Swails, a student in Jane Wellehan’s English class, wrote the poem in response to Langston Hughes’ “Theme for English […]

Times Record

From the Chamber: Covid Heroes, tourism and growth

by Cory King From the Chamber March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

With April on the doorstep, I have three Chamber updates that will all help the local businesses one way or the other. For each of these, if you need more information you can call me at the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber office, (207) 725-8797, or if you prefer, shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]. […]