As a pediatrician at a busy practice in the Portland area, I am troubled by the growing epidemic of flavored tobacco use among our youth. The health and wellness of children is my calling. Knowing the tobacco industry is targeting children with flavors like strawberry lemonade, bubble gum and cotton candy frustrates and saddens me. […]

I’m grateful to Jill Biden and the Biden administration for prioritizing safety from firearms. At a town hall meeting on Jan. 25, she implored school principals to share safe gun storage information with their families. The Department of Education released a statement about the importance of educating families on securing firearms safely at home. The […]

When we decided to travel from Collinsville, Oklahoma, to Portland, Maine, to elope, there were a few things we anticipated. We anticipated amazing seafood, awe-inspiring scenery and great hockey with the Maine Mariners. Our expectations were exceeded at Luke’s Lobster, Fort Williams Park and a Mariners victory over Trois-Rivières. What we did not anticipate was […]

Amid Maine’s housing crisis, there are two fundamental problems that our state has yet to tackle: housing affordability for very low-income households and source of income discrimination. Households most at risk of losing their home or remaining unhoused are those at or below 30% of area median income. New affordable housing is usually not affordable […]

The fact that Donald Trump’s own mouth, his impulsivity and his anger issues cost him over $83 million is more proof that he is unfit to be president of the United States. This man is too angry and impulsive to have the nuclear codes. Barb Osen Orr’s Island

Abortion bothers the pro-choice folks so much that they must soothe their language to ease into their anti-human intervention in the lives of unborn babies. “Reproductive autonomy,” as they call it, could refer to a whole range of indeterminate behaviors. Planned Parenthood is an abortion looking for a place to happen. It is neither planned […]

Although I bristle at the frequency with which Mainers resort to referendums on legislative matters that would be best handled by our elected representatives, the referendum is the perfect vehicle to allow the people of Maine to speak to explicitly enshrine reproductive autonomy in our state Constitution. I have watched with dismay as women’s rights […]

On Jan. 29, the Press Herald printed an article that highlighted the unwillingness of military men to disclose their bout with prostate cancer and highlighted the recent reluctance of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (“Defense secretary kept prostate cancer, surgery complications a secret from everyone”). Others in the military cited their fear of affecting their careers […]