I write regarding the March 9 opinion piece about potential gun safety legislation that might cost Mainers their right to bear arms. It was such hyperbole. Even just one regulation, a 72-hour waiting period, is labeled as “piling on” hunters and small businesses. I think the writer is confusing who the victims are: those who […]

William Penn wrote: Only those can criticize who also have a heart to help. The rest is cruelty, not justice. What an apt description of the public persona of Donald Trump. Trump’s rhetoric is a constant stream of self-pitying complaints, self-aggrandizing fantasies and caustic critiques of anyone who does not demonstrate total loyalty to him. […]

This is in response to the March 22 opinion piece, “Whose history are we preserving at Free Street building?” I believe “we” are prevailing in protecting the City of Portland’s rich history, and yes that includes John Calvin Stevens, who seemed to be dismissed so casually in the piece. In fact, the writer seems to […]

Decades ago, when we moved into our home near the Mercer Bog, my neighbor Scott and I had a friendly springtime game of predicting when the ice went out. “Ice-out” was when it was possible for a canoe to pass between the dam and the bridge about a quarter mile up stream. The person with […]

As fellow Vietnam combat veterans, we appreciate, support and agree with the recent opinion article by George Clark (“Opinion: We are watching democracy’s slow death,” March 7). We also are fearful of another four years of a Trump presidency, as George so well expressed. Kerry McCormack Cumberland Center Stanley Wentzell Kingston, N.H.

As a retiree with a MainePERS pension, I request that the MainePERS investment team divest from fossil fuel investments. Liquidate investments in individual fossil fuel corporations. Liquidate investments in funds with portfolios including fossil fuel industries. End relationships with banks having lengthy records of financing fossil fuel industries. I disagree with the chief executive’s interpretation […]