In response to President Trump’s inauguration speech on Jan. 20, I found it profoundly concerning that the new president seems intent on reversing our country’s progress toward lasting energy solutions amid an energy crisis. In his speech, President Trump pledged to end the electric vehicle mandate and increase crude oil drilling in the United States. […]

The Republican proposal to revoke a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases is a giant step backward for Maine. I’d like Rep. William “Billy Bob” Faulkingham, of Winter Harbor, to take walk in my shoes. I am the father of a son who walked into a Rockland sporting goods store, suffering from severe depression, bought […]

Within 24 hours after President Trump swore to defend the Constitution, he issued an executive order pardoning 1,500-plus deluded traitors, who had attempted to storm the Capitol, overthrow the government and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. They broke into the building, attacked police, paraded the Confederate flag, defecated on the floor, threatened […]

As the parent of three students enrolled at Cape Elizabeth schools, I was disappointed to learn of the unethical actions of some Cape parents on behalf of their children (“Cape Elizabeth parents shared old tests, principal says,” Jan. 13). My primary disappointment is for the way these actions diminish and devalue the hard work that […]

I am writing to thank the unknown person who so kindly and anonymously found my checkbook, which must have fallen out of my pocketbook at Bayside Bowl, and drove it all the way to my home in South Portland. It’s wonderful to know that kind, thoughtful people still exist. The fact that this Good Samaritan […]

I enjoyed reading the Jan. 13 op-ed “Alcoholic beverages should warn about cancer.” More than 100 years ago, alcoholic beverages were vital to sterilizing what humans drank and ate in an era where our understanding of bacteria was primitive or nonexistent. Before pasteurization, alcohol was the cheapest and best means to sterilize food in an […]

Let’s not forget, the billionaires have long played different sets of society against each other. Poor and struggling middle class Black people and white people have often been set against each other as a strategy to divide and weaken the people. Right now, we are seeing the billionaires again play puppeteer with both the Republican […]

Thank you to Travis Lazarczyk for the Jan. 15 Press Herald column in praise of referees. We love to support our student athletes, cheering them on in their games, and I like to think the kids appreciate our enthusiastic pride. As a grandmother, I feel embarrassed by adults in the crowd, red in the face […]