I agree with the Women’s Tennis Association’s decision to suspend all tournaments in China because of concerns over the safety of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai. Peng’s recent disappearance comes after she accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. The WTA wants a full investigation into Peng’s assault case. CEO Steve Simon said, […]

Within the past six weeks, two events changed (or tried to change) decisions made by local and state officials. First, the Central Maine Power corridor project was defeated. Only 38 percent of registered Maine voters participated. Second, 1,155 Cape Elizabeth residents, or only 12 percent of the town’s population, signed a petition to overturn the […]

The homeless population seems to only be growing, some days the parks are clear and beautiful, and others, they are overrun, looking like a dirty Woodstock that’s been running since the original started. They have nowhere else to go.Just in the Press Herald was an article headlined “Portland’s unsheltered homeless population is on the rise […]

As recent news reports and an editorial in this paper (Our View, Nov. 9) pointed out, declining college enrollment is one COVID disruption that has the potential to create long-term economic problems. On one hand, in today’s labor shortage, Maine employers need workers now. On the other hand, declining enrollment today poses workforce shortages tomorrow. […]

Re: “Collins says she’d support legislation to codify protections in Roe v. Wade” (Dec. 2, Page B1): If, as stated by spokeswoman Annie Clark, “Senator (Susan) Collins supports the right to an abortion and believes that the protections in the (Roe v. Wade) and (Planned Parenthood v. Casey) decisions should be passed into law,” then […]

We write on behalf of our colleague Rep. Jeff Evangelos. As a Democrat, a Republican and an unenrolled lawmaker, we don’t always see eye to eye. But last session, there was one bill we all agreed was of the utmost importance, and that was L.D. 194, An Act To Prohibit Contributions, Expenditures and Participation by […]

I write in support of LD 1626, an act that will restore to Wabanaki tribes the sovereign status of other Indigenous communities in the United States, and enable Wabanaki peoples to access federal support and programs, consistent with federal law. As a minister, I think a lot about right and wrong. I have been researching […]

The Dec. 1 oral arguments before the Supreme Court pertaining to Mississippi’s draconian law attacking abortion rights in this country, brought to light the poor decision making by Sen. Susan Collins.In her grandstanding October 2018 speech, where she announced her support for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, she specifically cited then-Judge Kavanaugh’s overwhelming respect for precedent and […]