The tens of millions of dollars spent by the opposing sides in the Central Maine Power energy corridor referendum (“Energy companies keep pouring millions into battle over power line corridor,” Oct. 5) are a textbook example of the toxic influence of unrestrained corporate spending on our elections. Ideally, the voters of Maine would debate this […]

Re: “With new owners, ‘Big Indian’ statue to remain in Freeport, for now” (Oct. 8, Page C2): Twice a day I drive past the “Big Indian” statue on Route 1 in Freeport. It might interest the new owner, Eric Dube, to know that I’ve used these moments as conversation starters with my children, and that […]

Oct. 17-23 is National Friends of Libraries Week and a good time to show appreciation for your library’s Friends group. Our libraries are better because of all they do, which, in turn, enriches our communities. Each group is tailored to best serve its library, but in Scarborough, among other contributions, the Friends of the Scarborough […]

I once saw a quote, “Jail should be for the people we’re scared of, not the people we’re mad at.” How many people in the Cumberland County Jail are we truly afraid of? And how many are people we only are mad at? Stephen Wellcome Brunswick

There are so many op-eds in and letters to the paper talking about the amount of plastic in our world and the damage it is doing. There are even no more free plastic bags at the grocery. I have been wondering, over the past several days, why the Press Herald continues to deliver the daily […]

The COVID pandemic has clearly demonstrated why moving ahead with the building of a 208-bed emergency shelter in Portland is unwise and dangerous. One study (published August 2020 in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine) of five homeless shelters in Rhode Island, the largest of which sheltered 89 people, found that infection control practices were […]

While Question 1 to stop New England Clean Energy Connect project has engaged fervent partisans on both sides, the problem is that there are three different issues lumped together, and you can’t vote ‘Yes’ on one without also voting ‘Yes’ on the other two. The first issue is whether to build the line or not. […]

Perhaps the most noteworthy “lesson learned” from COVID-19 is that we should heed the advice of experts when it comes to matters of human health. That’s why we’re surprised by Kathleen Parker’s recent editorial “Time to rethink how we use animals to test pharmaceuticals” (Oct.3). There are significant problems with the data Ms. Parker cites […]