Mainers deserve clarity regarding the foreign campaign spending ban vetoed by Gov. Mills, and they aren’t getting it. The Press Herald’s recent characterization of the foreign companies who control our electricity grid as “U.S.-based electricity companies” is a case in point (“Millions of dollars in foreign campaign funds pour into Maine as lawmakers push to ban […]

This letter is addressed to our legislators – whether they be local, state or federal. Last week, neighbors held a vigil for four people killed in yet another mass shooting in Georgia. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 400 mass shootings recorded so far in 2023! Yet little significant change has […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke in front of Congress last week. He spoke in regards to censorship – his own words having been censored on social media. Several Democrats said he had no right to be there. Ironically, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz moved that the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government go into […]

Shame on the Portland Police Department for initially refusing to name the establishment where the alleged drugging of women recently took place (“Old Port bartenders tell customers to ‘look out for each other’ after women report being drugged,” July 18). We need their protection. Vicki Friedman Portland

I wanted to write a response to the June 30 letter “Religion should not be part of abortion debate.” I believe the writer’s theology is a little off. He wrote that my religion doesn’t apply to him, only to me. Well, my way of looking at it in this case is: If my religion tells […]

I was delighted to see your report on the Legislature’s endorsement of offshore wind-generated power on July 13 (“Committee endorses adjusted wind power bill”). We’ve known, since the Baldacci administration or before, that the potential is near 100% of our future need. We’ve also known that climate change is not going to wait for politics […]

The other day, I was crossing the Casco Bay Bridge when, at the stoplight at the bottom of State Street, a woman in a big black Nissan with a Texas registration rolled down her window and yelled out at me. I think she was objecting to my license plate. I smiled and quietly rolled on, […]

Why, in Maine, are solar energy non-subscribers being required to subsidize solar energy subscribers? Just raise the subscription cost for solar energy subscribers. Isn’t that how things are done: Initially a high subscription rate until a sufficient number of subscribers make it possible to reduce rates, or even offer rebates incrementally? Do not push solar […]