The issue of Trump administration crimes is complicated. Some suggest the Biden administration should fully investigate illegalities and prosecute those responsible. After all, U.S. law applies to all, including the president. Historian Heather Cox Richardson suggests that if Richard Nixon had been prosecuted for Watergate, that might have forestalled Iran-Contra and George W. Bush’s invading […]

I have a problem with Jim Fossel’s column of Dec. 20. I understand that opinion writers get a lot of leeway, as they should. But they should not be allowed to present as fact something that’s just not true. In Sunday’s column, he closes by calling for “both” parties to end efforts to drive down […]

In the Dec. 22 Press Herald, a letter writer (John Kirby) laments Sen. Susan Collins approving each of President Trump’s judicial nominees for the federal court last week, adding that Sen. Angus King opposed most of them. The writer concludes his letter asking if Sen. Collins ever listened to her constituents. Perhaps the writer wasn’t […]

I fully concur with letter writer Dr. Thomas McInerney’s plea for universal health care (“Disjointed health care system makes virus’ toll worse,” Dec. 18). But why should pleading be necessary? Isn’t it self-evident that a wealthy country should have a health care system guaranteeing a high level of care to all? Other advanced countries do. […]

Tis the season when adequate snow is needed on our rooftops for a certain sleigh to land. Fortunately that snow arrived Friday but reports that Portland got 17 inches while Gorham got 24 inches are simply wrong. The only way Gorham could have piled up more snow than Portland is by massive fraud. Consider these […]

Re: “About 90,000 sex abuse claims filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy” (Nov. 17, Page A2): I’m glad to say that Boy Scouts was a positive experience. I learned much about camping and leadership. It was fun and helped prepare me for life. There was probably abuse, but it never reached me. I would hate to […]

I am writing to note that a frequent barb against Susan Coliins during the past senatorial election was her very frequent tendency to vote “yea” for almost every Donald Trump-Republican nominee for the federal judiciary. To see if this tendency has survived a rigorous election, I have been carefully checking the weekly Senate votes published […]