I was pleased to see your report that Rep. Laurel Libby was censured by the Maine Legislature for using a social media post of a child she alleged to be transgender to score political points. Rep. Libby appears to enjoy being in the thick of controversies that appeal to the extreme right, like vaccination or […]

Feb. 28, 2025, was an appalling example of diplomacy. President Trump and Vice President Vance made efforts to humiliate and have Ukraine President Zelenskyy cower to their demands. They acted not as the leaders of the most powerful country in the world. They acted not with the remoteness understanding of the tragedy that has befallen […]

On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 140 countries worldwide. During the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers were sent home, but today more than 3,500 volunteers are serving and the […]

I am so saddened at the message being sent to transgender girls — by not only fellow students, but adults, legislators and of course the entire U.S. administration. Imagine the agony they go through, first by feeling they’re in the wrong bodies, then the decision to change, then telling family who may or may not […]

Kevin Hart’s letter in the Feb. 20 Press Herald, “Musk’s group is not acronym-worthy,” missed the larger truth. The acronym DOGE, for Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, does give the impression that it is a real government department. But what is misleading is not the acronym, it is the name of the so-called department. […]

One cannot help but feel for Americans like West Gardiner farmer Kevin Leavitt, who made life-altering decisions based if not on implied promises then indeed contracts, only to have them singlehandedly undone by President Trump. While Mr. Leavitt is pretty young, I’m guessing his ethos may still be the possibly dated notion that a person’s […]

I am one of hundreds of millions of Americans who have benefited from living in this imperfect democracy. I have been able to attend college and obtain graduate degrees. I have owned a home and raised children in a great public school system. I have not gone hungry. I have had access to health care, […]

I hope that those who read the Press Herald Opinion page on Feb. 21 read the op-ed submitted by Mr. Edward Lovely of Topsham (“Elon Musk show us that, yes, it can happen here“). He put into words, in the most succinct way, what I spent a few hours trying to write myself. Unfortunately, many […]

What a shame that Maine has an arrogant and not-so-very-bright governor. Why she is making an issue of transgender athletes, when it is obvious that men don’t belong in women’s sports, boggles the mind. Our family (six adults and six grandchildren) has frequently spent vacations at York Beach. We were planning to do so again […]