I am a big fan of Gov. Janet Mills. The morning after her first inauguration, I felt the gloom of the last eight years lift from my shoulders. I knew better days were coming and they have. Then came Lewiston tragedy and the searing picture on the front page of the paper of President Biden […]

Following President Biden’s announcement that he was pausing bomb shipments to the Netanyahu government in Israel, leading Republicans lit up the airways with criticism of his withholding congressionally approved aid. It seems they forget that Donald Trump did the same thing to President Zelensky in Ukraine. President Biden is taking his action in an effort […]

“We may have come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now!” John Lewis quipped. So we had better pull ourselves together and get rowing in the same direction, before we self-destruct on the rocks of division, disinformation and dangerous rhetoric. Let’s end the storm that cripples our Congress, renders us […]

I would like to strongly echo Mary Dunn’s May 14 letter in response to Chris Myers Asch’s love letter to the state of Israel (“How can a liberal love Israel?” May 10), a nation which is currently waging a disproportionate war against the Palestinian people of Gaza, killing tens of thousands of human beings and […]

As a history major in college who studied the rise of Hitler in Germany, I see striking parallels in leadership style between Hitler and Trump. The rhetoric of both is similar, each portraying himself as an outsider challenging a corrupt elite establishment. Both have a history of involvement with armed insurrection, Trump in the attack […]

Portland Museum of Art is a first-class museum. Can we not work to sustain this accolade instead of being preoccupied with a new multimillion dollar glass wall and trying to rearrange history, which in essence has nothing to do with art exhibitions? After all, a museum is about art and art collections, not the buildings […]

As the former chairperson of the MSAD 51 Board of Directors, I strongly advocate for the proposed bond to revamp the aging and overcrowded school campus for Cumberland and North Yarmouth. This crucial project includes constructing a new building for our youngest learners, urgent renovations to Mabel I. Wilson school, and updating our athletic fields […]