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Opinions from the Portland Press Herald editorial board.
If you didn’t understand the inherent problems with mixed use development on Portland’s waterfront, the recent release of e-mails between city officials and the Pierce Atwood law firm should clear it up.
The documents, revealed in response to a Freedom of Access request by The Portland Press Herald, show a law firm that was threatening to pull out of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment deal by the water because of the presence of refrigerated trailers filled with lobster bait next door.
The Three Ring Binder is a project that will drive economic development for many years.
It’s just not true, as Ron Bancroft wrote, that teachers are a ‘major force’ against reform.
You might want to call it the "Peggy Lee Civic Center." That would name the facility for the pop chanteuse who gave the world the song "Is that all there is?"
The plan for revamping the 33-year-old Cumberland County Civic Center approved Friday by a unanimous task force seems a little underwhelming, especially after months of anticipation of a report from the consultants who analyzed the market as well as the building.
The most eye-catching part of the plan is the price tag, an estimated $28 million to $29 million, to upgrade the facility but not add any seats.
A new report outlines ways that reorganized counties could help towns save money.
Whether international ferry service resumes is a decision that will be made in Canada.
No law should enable protestors to prevent a grieving family from burying a loved one.
But no law can tell the protestors to be quiet.
That is the essence of the First Amendment of the Constitution and that is the principle that the U.S. Supreme Court should hold fast when it decides the fate of a tiny church in Kansas and its founder, the Rev. Fred W. Phelps.
The Pine Tree and Granite states are divided in part by the Piscataqua River and, more to the point, by governing philosophies on tax and spending issues that come from different spots on the political spectrum.
But the river and the governing fiscal paradigms are linked at the cross-border communities of Kittery and Portsmouth, N.H., where two bridges spanning the Piscataqua are in serious need of repair or replacement, and maintenance issues continue to be unresolved for a third one.
A collegiate baseball league team is testing the former minor league field next year.
There is a reason that public records are kept in courthouses.
It’s not because the records belong to the courts, and it’s not because county registries need a source of income.
Records like deeds and wills are in courthouse because they belong to the public, and in Maine’s early times, the county courthouses were the most public place they could be kept.