Several recent letters to this paper have misunderstood and mischaracterized critical race theory. It doesn’t assert, as Pamela Brant writes, that all whites are racist and should be shamed, and all blacks are oppressed victims. Rather, it re-examines history and concludes that individual racism cannot explain our racist past, so American society must be structurally […]

I am responding to the Washington Post story “Flying is a mess this summer,” which I read in the July 6 Press Herald. Yes, it is, and the reasons given – booking with time to spare, taking a direct flight, not checking a bag, etc. are all fine – for normal times. Sadly, we are […]

I’m writing about a letter in the July 4 Maine Sunday Telegram headlined “Partisan Supreme Court weakens our democracy” (Page D3). My father and uncles served in our military during World War II, and I served during Vietnam. Those wars tested our mettle. Our country has even survived the very costly Civil War. I can […]

In your July 4 edition, Richard Riese from Wiscasset writes (Voice of the People, “Collins stands with America’s past,” Page D3) that our Maine delegation has “a duty to stand up against those states that seek to constrain the fundamental right of their citizens to vote.” I don’t know Mr. Riese, but I’m guessing he’s […]

Good news. Boyne Resorts, parent company of Sunday River Resort and Sugarloaf, is serious about mitigating climate change. Boyne endorsed the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 2307, the first, best step toward capping the global average temperature increase to a target that avoids the most disastrous impacts of climate change. Global warming has […]

Sha’Carri Richardson is already a superhero to so many, but here she is on the verge of influencing an entire generation of younger people who are behind her and the rest of us, no matter which generation we belong to. She has acknowledged her mistake in choosing to use pot, even knowing she was breaking […]

I share Sam Saltonstall’s optimism for national climate policy progress (“Letter to the editor: Signs of hope for climate solutions,” June 25, Page A12). Here’s more good news: With the praiseworthy support of Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins, the Senate has passed the Growing Climate Solutions Act (S.1251), which encourages natural carbon sequestration through […]

In a July 3 letter to the editor, Elizabeth Caruso wrote about how Mainers deserve scientific facts about the Clean Energy Corridor project. Indeed, they do. They also deserve honesty, which is missing from Ms. Caruso’s letter. The claims she made about the project have been disproven throughout the Clean Energy Corridor’s 30-plus-month regulatory review […]

2020 was an extraordinary year for elections. Even as we were being crushed by the pandemic, we voted in unprecedented numbers. We needed to find safe ways of voting, so we took advantage of opportunities not widely used before, like having secure ballot boxes available to cast a ballot at any time. All of the […]