I worked with a captain who had a fine suggestion for a fellow officer spending far too much time with his head in the radar cowling: “You could just look out the damned window.” I paraphrase. Did any of us need the International Court of Justice to tell us whether what we’ve been seeing in […]

The former children’s museum building in Portland must not be demolished to suit one neighboring organization. A building like this is impossible to construct given today’s skills and technology. The methods and materials used in its construction alone are reason enough to preserve this building. It is unsustainable to demolish this building. Why use energy […]

All our lives we’ve been told that America is the Good Guy, the humane country – and now, as tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children, are murdered in cold blood, we are sending the murderer more weapons. Every American ought to feel disgraced by this. John Manderino Scarborough

What am I missing here? If Donald Trump is innocent, why does he need immunity? If Trump made America great, why does he have to do it again? Doris Luther Hollis

My heartiest thanks to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for doing what they do. And that is providing us with the local news. All three Page 1 articles in the Jan. 21 Sunday paper convey stories of local interest, both statewide and particular to Portland. Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard told of the challenges Maine […]

I read Mr. Fossel’s column each week. I usually do not agree with what he says, but last week’s nonsense about the Electoral College (“Like it or not, Electoral College is effective,” Jan. 21) has forced me to write this. He claims there is no legitimate national popular vote because electoral laws differ from state […]

I would like to commend the Maine Sunday Telegram’s extensive coverage of Maine’s recent storms and future expectations in “How the Maine coast will be reshaped by a rising Gulf of Maine,” by Penelope Overton (Jan. 21). The coastal devastation caused by the recent storms on Dec. 18, Jan. 10 and Jan. 13 wreaked havoc […]