Thank you for the front-page review of Rep. Jared Golden’s performance and philosophy as a representative in our Second District. I have admired this man from the onset of his election to the 2nd Maine Congressional District and I, living in Portland, cannot vote for him. A while ago I chose to go to an […]

In the “Ask Maine Audubon” column in the Aug. 18 edition of the Maine Sunday Telegram (“Muskrats in the pond are not a nuisance”), Doug Hitchcox wrote, “Beavers, despite being one of the most fascinating and important ecosystem engineers, are often disliked for their ability to impact environments by cutting down trees and damming waterways.” […]

I want to thank President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for one of their many remarkable accomplishments on behalf of the American people. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed in 2022, marked a pivotal moment in U.S. history for clean energy and job creation. This transformative legislation is the largest investment in clean energy […]

I initially felt a compelling need to write about the very real and very frightening dangers of a Trump presidency. As I sit here, however, I am actively choosing not to think about Trump – and focus my attention on the very new landscape in front of us. We now have Vice President Harris and […]

Here we go! The campaigns are all in full sail for this November’s elections. We are seeing and will see hundreds of ads with promises to solve all our issues if we just vote for them. I would like to ask my fellow voters of all parties to complete a couple of important steps before […]

I have planned, many times, on writing a comment to the editor about something I read, only to read, a few days later, that someone else had written my thoughts eloquently for me. The Aug. 17 Press Herald column by Raymond Diamond (“Ma’am, are you going to call the police on me for juggling?”) should […]