I’m writing in response to a letter from Steven Silver, of South Portland, bashing the teacher who wrote the op-ed “We are not powerless in the face of Gaza horror.” As a retired teacher, I can assure Mr. Silver that our goal as educators is to teach children how to think, not what to think. […]

It was a relief to see the editors of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram finally stop treating Sen. Collins with the kid gloves they (and much of the Maine press, e.g., the Bangor Daily News) have been using for decades, while buying into her preposterous claim to be a moderate. Collins has been pulling […]

As we head through the primaries and later into the November elections, we must consider our choices on reproductive rights. Note that those who run for office against abortion are often the same “antiregulation” people who vote against child care, maternal health care, free school lunches, school and education funding, and parental leave, along with […]

Arguing that her critics distorted the meaning of her prepared statement in support of Trump’s trashing of our judicial system, Sen. Collins responded, “I think my statement was crystal clear.” (“Sen. Collins takes heat for echoing Trump’s claims of political prosecution,” Maine Sunday Telegram, June 9.) Since Sen. Collins is doubling down on her comments, […]

I write in gratitude for the eloquent opinion piece “There should be no equivocating over Gaza,”  (June 10) and for the actions of the author, Brendan McQuade, who participated in the extremely effective blockade at the General Dynamics plant in Saco. Professor McQuade notes that protesters were not able to shut down the factory. However, […]

Historian Heather Cox Richardson recently penned an article about D-Day and Biden’s remembrance of the Normandy assault that turned the tide in World War II. Her words: The story of the veterans “has always been the story of America,” Biden said. “Just walk the rows of this cemetery. … Nearly 10,000 heroes buried side by […]

I was heartbroken to see the photo of the dead female humpback whale, ensnared in fishing lines, on the front page of the June 7 Press Herald. I could only imagine the anguish she experienced. How could the newspaper also publish the Close To Home “comic” (Page C4) of a beached whale the same day? […]

This year already has been exceptionally deadly for endangered whales. At least five North Atlantic right whales have died – four by ship strikes (including one calf whose mother was killed by a ship and who is too young to survive on its own, thus indirectly killed by ship strike). These are just the deaths […]