I’m an avid reader of The Week, a magazine that I value up there with the Press Herald as an indispensable fount of information and inspiration. In a recent issue, that magazine’s editor-in-chief writes of Greek tragedies: “… where heroes meet their downfall when they succumb to hubris – the arrogant belief in their own […]

This seems like a good time to ask how Maine is working to improve gun safety laws. I saw on everytown.org that Maine ranks 26 in the nation on gun safety. We need to make this a priority. I teach at Portland High School. The active shooter threats on Nov. 15 at several schools in […]

Let’s be honest. There are those who no longer observe Dec. 25 as the religious holiday that it is. So, for them, it is no longer Christmas. And it’s not Saturnalia. What is their Dec. 25? They should give it an appropriate name. I’m suggesting “Winterfest.” This solves the problem of Santa Claus; he can […]

I see reference to infrastructure projects like the Eastern Trail that have been allocated funds from the 2021 infrastructure deal (“Work on the Eastern Trail could expand rapidly in the coming decade,” Nov. 13). It makes me very interested in learning how much money Maine will get for infrastructure projects, as well as who decides […]

As a child, I remember my parents talking about growing up during the “Red Scare,” and preparing for nuclear war. It was hard to imagine them as children in their Buster Brown shoes, innocent and vulnerable, crouched under cheap metal desks and waiting for what seemed inevitable. My father remembers his family’s makeshift fallout shelter, […]

Thank you for publishing Will Bunch’s spot-on assessment of President Biden’s first two years and how he managed to win the 2020 election (“A Biden coalition is (barely) saving democracy. POTUS 46 must run again in ’24,” Nov. 20). A candidate without his decades of Senate experience and worldwide associations could not have coalesced his […]

Attorney General Aaron Frey claims that old evidence connecting Dennis Dechaine to the 1988 murder of Sarah Cherry overrides new test results excluding Dechaine as a contributor of DNA found on three items connected to the crime (“Maine AG says new DNA tests insufficient to overturn 34-year-old murder case,” Nov 15). He added that Dechaine […]

Republicans ran on a vague platform which they claimed would fight inflation and crime, fix immigration and set the country on the right path again. Details, schmetails. Most voters didn’t fall for it, but after conning enough people they managed to eke out a very slim majority in the House. Their solutions? They plan to […]

Whole Foods is boycotting Maine lobster without really understanding the issues of harvesting. I encourage all Maine citizens to boycott Whole Foods for its thoughtless, automatic corporate action. John Roediger South Portland