I feel compelled to respond to conservative claims about how humanity is made is undisputed by science, i.e., male and female. Actually, there are many chromosome combinations in between XX and XY. Maybe a little more research into that would be in order. Saying “woke” is a gimmicky distraction by Democrats? In my observation, it […]

Thank you to the Press Herald for your July 28 editorial, “Our View: Work authorization would help migrants, and the rest of us.” At Hope Acts, a Portland-based nonprofit serving new asylum seekers, we also want to voice our support for Rep. Chellie Pingree’s legislation to allow asylum seekers to apply for work permits 30 […]

I can sympathize with both Gorham taxpayers as well as their public education school boards and employees attempting to salvage adequate resources from an already heavily taxed public. Too often, it’s a convenient target for balancing a municipal budget. It could have been much different though. Our Founding Fathers never mentioned an educated populace in […]

Emily Langer’s July 28 Washington Post obituary of Japanese author Seiichi Morimura (a man I’d had no knowledge of) was breathtaking in its relevance to the “anti-woke” movement by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other extremist conservatives. Just 36 years after Japan’s defeat in World War II, Morimura had the courage to research and document […]

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed Medicare into law, allowing millions of seniors to access health care. On the occasion of Medicare’s 58th birthday, Medicare is under threat. Efforts to privatize Medicare are eroding this landmark program, allowing the greed of a few to threaten the well-being of us all. The Medicare Advantage program […]

This letter comes to you shortly after the anniversary of the Trinity atomic bomb test, and as the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approach. For quite some time, the peace movement in this country has been calling for an end to the president’s sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. Before he died, Daniel […]

Point one: Great syndicated political cartoon on Page A6 of the July 28 Press Herald by Kevin Siers. Elon Musk is a pirate for sure. Point two: On the July 28 letter attacking Clay Bennett’s cartoon on Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town,” we are just waiting for the response from Snoop […]

Regarding the Press Herald’s July 26 Page 1 stories “Across the planet and close to home, alarm bells sound”: The only way to stop the climate crisis is to completely change our consumption-based lifestyles. Unless we take radical and emergency steps, we are doomed, and so is most life on our planet. What lifestyle changes […]