Re: “Trump returns to Washington, repeating election lies” (July 27, Page A3): Welcome to Twilight Zone 2022: the story by Associated Press reporter Jill Colvin in Wednesday’s Press Herald about Donald Trump’s July 26 speech in Washington, D.C. Trump’s key talking points, repeating his lie that he won the 2020 election: • The election was […]

Republican extremists? Indeed. Removing access to birth control and safe and legal abortions sounds like forced pregnancy to me. In some states, Republican leadership have already tried to ban IUDs and other contraceptives. Will they try to ban condoms next? Republicans are choosing to deny women safe and legal access to abortion and continue to […]

This is not a letter that is critical of Central Maine Power – or any other Maine-based electrical utility. This is a letter questioning our Public Utilities Commission and its decision-making process. Maine’s electricity generation rate increased by more than 54 percent this year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, cited by the website […]

I just received my Falmouth property tax revaluation and it went way up. Yes, I scheduled a hearing on it, as many things were listed for valuation that I do not have – like an expensive backup generator that I do not have and a patio that does not exist. Many of us multigeneration Mainers […]

We should commend our postal workers and carriers for all they do. The U.S. Postal Service has a severe labor shortage, requiring many of them to work 12-hour days, six and seven days a week. Many carry extra routes and assist with other jobs. Packages are becoming a nightmare. The size and number of packages […]

I was deeply saddened by Tribune News Service columnist Martin Schram’s July 23 op-ed (“No nation is immune from climate change danger,” Page A5), in which he described some of the consequences of ignoring early warnings about the threats from global warming. In his column, he had a quote from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]

When my father was dying, I had a hospital oncologist say he was too busy to talk with me. My brother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. What support has been given to his wife? I have a gravely ill friend who has long-term COVID and now leukemia. She had been told she needs basic equipment. […]

Of late and in various circumstances, I have heard speakers and read writers who rightly acknowledge that, as we live in Maine, we live on unceded, stolen Wabanaki land – over which they were traditional custodians and guardians. On road signs in Scotland, you will see both the English and the Gaelic names for towns, […]