Congratulations to Sen. Susan Collins! Her hard work has clearly paid off and the Smithsonian will likely soon include a Women’s History Museum. I would like to suggest some Maine women who I believe should be honored by inclusion. A young wife and mother who had to give up her job as sternman on her […]

I’d quibble with letter writer Therese Johnson (Nov. 13) when she reduces William H. Slavick’s criticism of Sara Gideon’s Senate campaign to opposition to people “from away.” I interpreted the main theme of his Nov. 6 letter as arguing against a Democratic Party elite that selects the candidates and showers them with campaign donations to […]

I am a dedicated Red Cross disaster worker who deploys to areas where help is needed. I see a lot of different situations where people have lost most of their belongings. Because of the season upon us, house fires are prevalent. Obtain renters insurance. It is a small payment each month; it replaces items that […]

In February, Sen. Susan Collins was prescient when she defended her vote to acquit the president on impeachment, saying that the president “learned … a pretty big lesson” from being impeached. What Trump learned was that, while he destroys the norms of our democracy, Sens. Collins and Lindsey Graham and other Republican senators will stand […]

After one of the most scrutinized elections in American history, some – not all – supporters of Donald Trump are challenging the final outcome of the Electoral College vote as well as the popular vote. This is after a thorough and heavily observed polling process in which both Democrats and Republicans monitored the actual counting […]

Having failed in the courts to overturn the election, President Trump and his legal team’s political nuclear option – get Republican-controlled state legislatures to ignore the vote for President-elect Joe Biden and send Trump’s slate of electors to the Electoral College instead – is also failing. Despite potential wiggle room for the Trump campaign under […]

Once again, the Press Herald Editorial crew has done a disservice to its subscribers with Tuesday’s (Nov. 24) Our View: “Republicans need to face facts on election” (Page A10). This after a four-year crusade by Democrats with false charges of Russian collusion, impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, as well as […]

Who is defending our democracy? I clearly see the thousands of voters who cast their ballots despite the risks of COVID-19; they certainly qualify. They did their part. The hardworking poll workers and ballot counters who took on the monumental task of carefully counting a record number of ballots given the challenges of the pandemic […]