Businesspeople know that hope and aspiration aren’t a plan. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and its director, Dr. Nirav Shah, did magnificently last year keeping us informed; thus, I expected a plan of execution, not a vaccine lottery come Jan. 1. Everybody knows that Maine has the oldest demographic. Being over age […]

I thank the Press Herald editorial board for “Our View: Lack of child care holding back children, parents – and Maine’s economy” (Jan. 29). I worry about child care being too expensive. I worry that if I relocate, I won’t be able to find child care for my 1-year-old. My partner and I both work […]

Martin Jones’ letter (Jan. 24) states that the disparities between racial groups in our medical, political, economic and educational systems are caused by minorities themselves. He refers to the work of three very conservative African American writers who, once again, are placing the blame for the extreme disparities between the races in our country on […]

I write this letter to call for the resignation of Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane. It recently came to light that Sheriff Kane cut ties with the Ellsworth-based non-profit Healthy Acadia over a personal objection to the non-profit’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Healthy Acadia had been providing services to inmates in Hancock […]

It is hard not to understand why there is such division in our country. We get our information from very different sources – from social media to investigative reporting. We are shaped by that to which we give our attention. Lord Acton, the English historian, politician, and writer (1834 –1902) recommended: “When you perceive a […]

Many Republican state lawmakers contend that Maine Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin’s free-speech rights were violated when he was temporarily replaced because of his social media posts questioning the integrity of our election and the efficacy of masking. Of course they do, because many of them espouse the same “opinions.” If they want to spout […]

Re: “His world is the oyster” (Jan. 24, Page F1): Staff Writer Bob Keyes wrote a very nice article about a company doing its best to revive the coastal Maine economy in a (semi)-traditional fashion, but did he consider the irony of how he described it? He began by informing readers of how West Point […]

I am writing to express opposition to the massive “closed” salmon pen operation proposed for Frenchman Bay. American Aquafarms, based in Portland and organized recently by the Norwegian company Global AS, is proposing a gigantic salmon farm. Plans are to place 30 sea pens, each 150 feet wide, on two leases, totaling 100 acres in […]

American Aquafarms, a multimillion-dollar company, has applied to lease over 100 acres of the ocean for salmon farming in lucrative Frenchman Bay fishing grounds. The proposed dual leases are to cover 50 and 60 acres on the ocean surface, but there is no telling how much additional space the pens will cover with ropes and […]