Bravo Press Herald! Bravo Boston Globe! The two-part series The Lobster Trap (Dec. 12 and 14) is brilliantly reported journalism at its best. It presented the many sides of a complex problem objectively, yet making us feel the toll it is taking upon the lives and livelihoods of hard-working folks and their families. Only by […]

What a piece of journalism by Boston Globe and Press Herald writers (The Lobster Trap, Dec. 12, Page A1)! This story is a perfect example of why a newspaper is the absolute best place to get the news. Even less-lengthy newspaper articles contain much more detail than radio or television. But your joint effort was […]

The article in the Dec. 14 Press Herald (“The Lobster Trap: Protests and prayers,” Page A1) describes yet another government grab – on one hand. On the other hand, it also explains the necessity to reduce whale casualties because of fishing gear, etc. The area that’s been closed is about one-sixtieth of the fishing grounds […]

The column concerning pandemic-fueled anxiety (“The View From Here: COVID malaise will leave a mark,” Dec. 12) will only cause more anxiety. You, and the rest of the local news media, have done nothing but cause people to be depressed for the past two years. Every day blaring COVID headlines is nothing more than constant […]

Jim Fossel’s column on the state budget surplus (Dec. 5) could not have been wrong on more fronts. First, he should avoid using analogies that he knows nothing about. What la-la land does he live in where contractors making more on a job than estimated should give it back? The contractor took a risk and […]

In his Dec. 9 letter, Dr. Joshua Cutler makes a compelling scientific argument for vaccination against the evolving coronavirus. And, of course, Gov. Mills, Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah have been using a number of moral and civic responsibility arguments to convince […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Gov. Mills’ COVID strategy isn’t working” (Dec. 16): I can readily empathize with letter writer John Gold of Saco, who, because of the surge of COVID cases is, as he puts it, out of luck if he is in need of health care any time in the immediate, and possibly […]