Maine teachers were put to the front of the line for vaccination so schools could reopen. Many schools have stayed open for in-person learning throughout the pandemic and successfully, with creativity, put a plan in place to protect both students and staff. Our granddaughters in York went to their elementary school full time throughout the […]

Isn’t ironic that Republicans are making it harder to vote than to buy an assault-style weapon? Jake Hawkins Arundel

This week, members of the Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee held a public hearing on L.D. 1015, proposed legislation to end the use of ammunition containing lead in hunting our wildlife. Lead is a known toxin, and has already been removed from pipes, various paints and gasoline and a host of other items to […]

I am the proud mother of a transgender child and a representative of the PFLAG Portland board. Individually, and as an organization, we raise our voices in opposition to L.D. 926, a discriminatory bill that would prohibit transgender women and girls in Maine from participating in both interscholastic and intramural sports. Denying transgender women and […]

I am a recovery coach working at the DownEast Recovery Support Center. Before I became a recovery coach, I was a member, and before that, I was someone with an addiction. Access to treatment helped me enter recovery, but the recovery community center provided the support, resources and connection that have helped me sustain my […]

Re: “White House allows journalists inside Texas border tent packed with minors” (March 31, Page A3): How many more pictures do we need to see of children, separated from their parents, in overcrowded pods serving as cells, before we say, “Enough is enough”? I urge President Biden: Let them in. What harm can these small […]

Is it really true that our city manager form of government was foisted upon our forebears by a nefarious plot 100 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan (Maine Voices, March 31)? Let’s look at some actual facts: At the beginning of the 20th century, political progressives began agitating to apply, at the municipal level, […]

Re: “Biden pooch leaves surprise for White House reporters” (April 1, Page A2): An article in the April 1 paper regarding the Bidens’ dog problems – biting, nipping and the poop-on-the-hallway-floor incidents – stands in contrast to the effects of the former president’s constant assaults on nearly all but his base and the massive amounts […]