Sen. Susan Collins says she is proud to have been a cosponsor of the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act but doesn’t mention that it has since been gutted by two Supreme Court rulings. Why is she now saying she will not vote for the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting […]

We are a group of social service and health care organizations in Portland, including Catholic Charities; Crossroads; Day One; Group Main Stream, Inc.; KFI Maine; Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition; Maine Behavioral Healthcare; Maine Medical Center; Seventy-Five State Street; Spurwink; St. Joseph’s Manor; Sweetser; The Cedars; The Opportunity Alliance, and Youth and Family Outreach. We want […]

In order to submit this letter for possible publication, you require me to provide my first and last names, as well as my town and state. I assume if my words lacked civility, they would likely not be published. Still, the Portland Press Herald – and other newspapers – allow uncivil and vile online comments […]

It is perpetually shameful to see another year go by without agreement that all Americans, regardless of their sex, deserve equal rights and protection under the law. Like other federal issues bogged down by politics, the Equal Rights Amendment has had to find its way into law through statehouses. Twenty-six other states have enacted their […]

I strongly agree with Hossein Askari’s Jan. 3 Maine Voices column, “Maine should collect more from out-of-state homeowners.” It was a number of years ago that I encountered a Democratic candidate running for governor who proposed a statewide property tax on land that would be 100 percent deductible from your state income tax. This has […]

Lots of talk recently about former Vice President Dick Cheney accompanying his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, to the House chamber’s observance Jan. 6. Indeed, the only two Republicans in Washington with the temerity to show up. I recall the support Mr. Cheney, along with Donald Rumsfeld and then-President George W. Bush, enjoyed from Republicans – […]

Those who are attacking City Councilor Andrew Zarro’s business and, who are in any way personally threatening him, should be called to account to the fullest extent legally and socially. Most especially they should be called to account by those who hold the same policy beliefs and a public apology should be made. For a […]

Seven years ago, Sen. Susan Collins walked with Rep. John Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that day in 1965, marchers demanded voting rights for African Americans and were met by police wielding clubs. Lewis almost died in the attack. Sadly, we are […]