The South Portland School Board is currently considering placing a bond issue before the voters in June for much needed improvements to the high school athletic fields, including adding artificial turf fields. South Portland voters turned down a similar larger, more expensive bond issue in the November 2024 election. Members of the public have been […]

The U.S. Department of Education recently called for an end to “Biden’s book ban hoax.” The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the dismissal of 11 censorship complaints alongside the elimination of its “book ban coordinator” position. Book bans and censorship are not hoaxes. This decision contradicts the pressing need to address the discriminatory […]

I hope readers of this letter will join me in recommending that the Press Herald give more prominence to actions, reactions, events and statements that are critical responses to the actions, events involving and statements of President Trump, Elon Musk and their supporters than it has been doing recently. That they are taking place is […]

For some reason, the people and press in Maine allow Susan Collins to paint herself as a “moderate” Republican or someone who has criticized Trump. She still has her defense for voting for Justice Brett Kavanaugh on her website. Someone hand her a paper fan while she feigns ignorance: “Oh, he told me Roe v. […]

By claiming USAID is a criminal organization and attempting to dismantle it, Elon Musk ignores the health needs of the world’s poorest children. I am a retired Maine pediatric surgeon and have worked in Rwanda for the past decade (three months/year), and I know that USAID programs make a difference. Medical training programs had been […]

The new presidential administration’s actions are clearly violating the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest and the right to independent thought. I am reminded of Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s speech to the U.S. Senate on June 1, 1950. This was Sen. Smith’s […]