Re: March 10 letter by Anne Manganello opposing the historic district: Portland’s property tax revaluation, with values driven by high-end developers, will force many Munjoy Hill landlords to raise rents. A historic district would cool development fervor and the escalating prices that threaten to displace more residents than any gently-enforced historic designation ever could. Affordable […]

Now that the dust of insurrection is settling in the courts, Americans are more aware than ever that our election system needs fixing. Today, more than 40 states are considering changes to their voting laws, most of them unfair and unique to their state. Discrepancies among the states prove that Americans do not have an […]

Samuel Rosenthal’s recent letter to the editor (“Making Portland a more affordable place to live,” March 12) promoted a false notion of how Portland property owners would be affected by the city’s revaluation. Mr. Rosenthal uses a hypothetical example of an increase in a property assessment from $200,000 to $300,000 and asserts that the property […]