On Dec. 9, the Press Herald published a letter from Gail Knowles of Falmouth, imploring it to excise Donald Trump photos because she finds his “self-satisfied smirk disgusting.” On Dec. 15, the Press Herald published my response criticizing the paper’s hypocrisy in publishing the Knowles hate-Trump letter and 40 column inches detailing Trump’s legal battles, […]

Like many, I was excited to read the recent announcement that scientists have achieved the dream of producing more energy from a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it. I hope this will one day help us solve our energy needs, but I worry that people will forget we need to act on climate […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Child can’t get care until parent proves she’s not sick” (Dec. 13): I know the medical field is overworked and understaffed, but not seeing a sick child unless they test negative for COVID? Why can we not access rapid strep and influenza tests at home like they did for COVID? […]

Wabanaki people have their own sovereign political and cultural existence, many thousands of years older than this settler state. Today (Dec. 9), in the index on Page A1 and again in an article on Page B1 of the Local & State section (“Sovereignty constraints hurt tribes financially, study finds”), you repeatedly imply the Wabanaki people […]

The fishermen and hunters of Maine should pay close attention to this presidential administration in the process of imposing more regulations on the industry. Serving 200 lobsters at the White House, while not meeting with Maine lobstermen regarding his administration’s regulations, is despicable and a stick in the eye of the state of Maine. The […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: It’s media hypocrisy, not Trump photos, that is disgusting” (Dec. 15): I’d like to suggest that letter writer Charles Todorich is engaging in a false equivalency when he compares the scant media coverage of what may or may not be on Hunter Biden’s laptop to the presumed outsized coverage if […]

The last two years have seen the best environmental legislation ever passed in the United States. With the CHIPS and Science Act (boosting semiconductor research, development and production), the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, there is $450 billion available for climate investment. Now we need to move with breakneck speed to allocate […]