Concerning filling the now-empty seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States: In the past, Ginsburg publicly called on the Senate to go through with the nomination. “That’s their job,” she told The New York Times in July 2016. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the […]

Re: “Our View: Holocaust studies should be required in Maine schools” (Sept. 17): Thanks to the Portland Press Herald for its editorial supporting the teaching of Holocaust studies in our Maine schools. “As the survivors told us, prejudiced attitudes led to acts of discrimination,” The Editorial Board wrote. “Racial rhetoric led to racist policies and, […]

President Trump believes that the American people “can’t handle the truth.” He lies about COVID-19 to prevent us from panicking. Talk about the nanny state! Jonathan W. Robbins Whitefield

Cumberland County’s rejection of using the Cross arena is just the latest example – other neighborhoods and communities, as well as the state, also should step up.

I could have sworn that our representatives took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. In these times – when so much political commentary appears to be focused on the Right vs. the Left, Republicans vs. Democrats, rather than to that Constitution – we are missing something very important: so many people are unshakably […]

I am sick of picking the lesser of two evils. I want to be able to vote for someone I am passionate about, not the person who has the most money and therefore the best chance of winning. Our current Senate race has someone I can vote for without feeling I am compromising my morals: […]

It is clear that many police incidents such as Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York; Nicolas Chavez in Houston, and the 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, in Salt Lake City, are the result of police reactions to mental health situations they can’t handle without escalating an encounter to the point of lethal force. We are […]

I am supporting my neighbor in Scarborough, Sophie Warren, for the Maine House of Representatives on Nov. 3. She is running as an independent for Scarborough’s District 29. I have known Sophie since she was a small child. She went to Sunday School at the church that her family and mine attended in Scarborough. Sophie […]