Re: “CMP misled the public, mismanaged rollout of new billing system” (June 23): Given Central Maine Power’s incompetence, few, if any, of us would hire them to build a driveway. The state of Maine, however, thinks Central Maine Power capable of managing the construction of a large, complicated project (which should never be built) in […]

The need to protect the working waterfront and the need to limit and control traffic on Commercial Street are deeply intertwined. We need an integrated solution for what’s happening on inner Commercial Street, including reducing the number of vehicles arriving and leaving every day.  A well-designed shuttle service, focused on Commercial Street and the Portland […]

I have enthusiastically followed the news about the selection of the artists for the Portland roundabout art commission at the intersection of Brighton and Deering avenues and Falmouth Street. At a gateway to the city, it’s important that the sculpture convey a sense of strength and permanence, and be a warm welcome to the students, […]

Plastic bags are a big problem, and the Portland Press Herald and its affiliated publications in Maine could easily become part of the solution rather than part of the problem by using biodegradable delivery bags. As a subscriber, I look to the Press Herald to be a socially responsible organization. Henry Hilliard Cumberland Foreside

An open question to 90 percent of the Democratic candidates for president: If you really care about our country, why aren’t you running for the Senate, where your skills and passion are needed? Alan Letourneau Tenants Harbor

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Nowhere in the Second Amendment does it say that background checks of gun buyers are prohibited. Nowhere in the Second Amendment […]

America has sunk to a new low. As stained as our country’s history is, I didn’t think we could become the kind of people who would allow our government to imprison, abuse and neglect hundreds of children and infants. But that is apparently what is going on at our southern border. Children are being imprisoned […]

I returned home today after getting a haircut, wondering if I had missed an opportunity. At the barber’s, a man in the next chair was telling his barber that during the summer he spends three nights a week at his home in Portland, and the other four nights on one of Portland’s islands. My wife […]