At his recent news conference, President Biden made this sobering statement: “I predict to you, your children and grandchildren will be doing their thesis on who succeeded: autocracy or democracy. Because that’s what’s at stake.” Right now, we as Mainers have a real opportunity to weigh in on the side of democracy. The Washington, D.C. […]

The March 29 edition of the Press Herald had a front-page story headlined “Portland public art gets a fresh look through social justice lens.” The story has a serious omission. It mentioned that only two pieces of public art were done by women of color, one of whom was Ayumi Horie. She created “Portland Brick,” […]

It’s both appalling and entirely expected to hear that Long Creek Youth Development Center has become a de facto psychiatric hospital (“Advocates: Legislation should require closure of youth prison,” March 27, Page B1). Since the U.S. started closing state psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s, U.S. jails and prisons have taken their place nationwide. By 2018, […]

The placement of additional traps in the path of the preliminary survey boat is an uptick in the conflict between the lobster industry and wind energy. But we’ve seen this impediment to progress before. And it’s been successful. (Dragon Cement was to bring barges to Wiscasset, to be loaded at Mason Station and sent to […]

I have been listening to the gun control debate since I was a child, when the first mass campus shooter, Charles Whitman, gunned down 45 people, killing 14, from the Tower at the University of Texas-Austin in 1966. I have been listening since the National Rifle Association voiced support for gun control the next year, […]

A year ago, we moved to rural Maine from a more populated part of the state to do what we can to avoid COVID, and it has been one challenge after another to stay abreast of the news. I hate reading the paper electronically, so I know I am part of the problem, but it […]

As a former county chairman of the Republican Party, I am horrified by the recent actions taken by the Aroostook County Republican Party to formally censure Sen. Susan Collins for her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. The blanket statements in the resolution do not reflect the values of our party as a whole, […]

On March 22, the Press Herald ran a story on Page A1, “Stimulus checks prop up many in moment of need.” On Page A8, where the story continues, a person named Tim Adams, age 23, is quoted as saying that he wanted to use his stimulus check to buy a 1988 Honda motorcycle and to […]