If the school board won’t even meet with city administration, what more was the city to do?
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: Santa Claus, our unlikely savior
Imagine the leg up that a peek behind the curtain gives to a developing brain trying to understand the world.
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Maine Voices: A sensible gun permit law exists for hunting in Maine. It’s time we expand that.
A ‘homegrown’ prohibition that fits with Maine’s culture and laws can provide us meaningful protection against gun violence.
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Maine Voices: Roux campus risks being a Trojan horse for development
Northeastern University’s Roux Institute needs a permanent home in Portland. Does it need an adjacent hotel, stores, bars and restaurants? I’d argue no.
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Maine Voices: Make America bored again, please
The madness of year-round politicking deprives us of the important ability to focus on the everyday stuff.
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Commentary: Sen. Collins must support grant program for manufactured housing communities
A vote for the PRICE program is a vote for an important, targeted solution to the housing crisis in Maine and nationally.
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Maine Voices: The beautiful potential of ‘the beautiful game’
Soccer can bring people together, offer hope and heal divisions. To me and many others, it’s much more than a sport.
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Maine Voices: President Biden should take pride in his first term – and not seek a second
If the Republicans succeed in dethroning Trump and nominate Ron DeSantis or a DeSantis-like candidate, I believe that President Biden would lose.
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Maine Voices: Gorham educators under attack for political ends
Processes in place to ensure parents have a role in the oversight of the schools have been hijacked.
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Maine Voices: “Marriage! What a strange word to be applied to two men!”
The 20th-century same-sex union between painter Russell Cheney and Harvard history and literature professor F. O. Matthiessen would have worked out very differently today.