I live, work and grew up in Portland, Oregon, and a recent letter to the editor immediately rang as untrue to my city (“It’s time to follow the other Portland on homelessness,” Aug. 16). There is no open campsite in Portland, Oregon, that provides toilets and dumpsters. On the contrary, a law was recently introduced […]

I often pass by a house that has statues of Joseph and Mary on their front steps, a depiction of the Nativity in their living-room window and a prominent “Trump 2024” sticker on the back window of their vehicle. The correspondence of the visuals makes me wonder if these fellow Christians experience the same things […]

As I read Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s The Maine Millennial column last week (“A long-term view on climate requires near-term sacrifice,” Aug. 13), I was reminded that just two weeks ago, as my husband and I drove from Maine to Michigan, we crossed into Canada at Niagara Falls and drove the King’s Highway 401 west through Ontario to […]

In 1988, Colorado Sen. Gary Hart was running for president. He dropped out of the race after a photo of him was published with a woman who was not his wife sitting on his lap in a boat named, interestingly enough, “Monkey Business.” Fast forward to 2023, and what do we have? We have the […]

Imagine my surprise upon opening Page D4 of last Sunday’s Insight section (Aug. 13): A “Doonesbury” cartoon that had a legible font size! Thank you! Now, could we have “Doonesbury” more than once a week? Bernard Mohr Portland

I want to thank Sen. Mattie Daughtry for her recent vote to end the sale of flavored tobacco products in Maine. Here in Maine, we lead the way. And it is nice to see Cumberland County leading the way within our state. Three of the six communities that have locally ended the sale of flavored […]

I want to thank our elected representatives and Gov. Mills for supporting the new law that allows a doctor to decide when ending a woman’s pregnancy past viability is necessary. The bill was introduced because of the horrific personal experience of Dana Peirce of Yarmouth. Peirce had to leave the state to obtain an abortion […]

In the midst of an extinction crisis and the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the globe, I find it completely irresponsible that Rep. Jared Golden would support the overturning of Endangered Species Act protections for the northern long-eared bat, in my view dooming this species to extinction. President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Endangered […]