Kudos to Dr. Anastasia Antonacos for her insightful July 26 opinion piece about the need for music education in our schools. As a retired early childhood music teacher, I can attest to the many skills that a simple music exercise can bring about, even in the youngest of children. These skills spill over into other […]

Jared Golden was elected as a Democrat, not a Republican nor an Independent. He is not serving Maine Democrats and should be replaced and soon. That he should have not even attended a White House meeting with the president, to which he was requested, is totally irresponsible. Now he is not endorsing the Democratic candidate, […]

I’m a regular traveler along Franklin Street in Portland — one of the city’s most important transportation links connecting Portland’s downtown and peninsula area to I-295. Over the past few months, the lights are so out of sync that traffic regularly backs up onto the interstate highway during the middle of the day and Franklin […]

Joe Biden didn’t leave the race because he wasn’t able to do the job. He was campaigning and working as president at a pace that would be difficult for many of us to sustain. His poor debate performance was followed by upbeat rallies and an hour-long, detailed foreign policy press conference. But party bosses and […]

In regard to the recent letter to the editor titled, “Anti-Trump bias persists in newspaper,” lamenting that there are no facts to support claims that Trump has made numerous lies and the paper should print “the truth,” the writer should take more care in deciding what is true. The biggest and most obvious example is […]

If the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life is not a sign of our times, I do not know what is. There is already enough worrisome and upsetting news in the world. Most decent and caring people are getting sick and tired of the inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that has added fuel to the […]

If the Press Herald’s July 6 headline, “Art of Darkness,” about Jamie Wyeth’s “Unsettled” exhibition at Farnsworth Art Museum, was intended as a pun on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” it was not an apt pun. Like Conrad’s novella, the theme of Megan Gray’s feature erroneously suggests pervasive savagery underscores Wyeth’s paintings. While even the […]