President Trump just can’t leave the trans issue alone, and true to form, he’d rather fight about it than find a reasoned solution. Republicans in the Maine Legislature are apparently of the same stripe. They have taken up the call with LD 926, “a committee amendment to HP 682 to ban biological males from participating […]

As practicing Catholics, we were deeply offended by President Trump’s recent post on the White House’s X account of a photoshopped picture of him posing as the new pope. Blasphemous, cruel, insensitive, infantile and mocking are words that come to mind. While 1.4 billion Catholics are still in a period of mourning, the president of […]

Margaret Chase Smith had 100 times the class of Sen. Angus King. First, he uses Paul Revere. That didn’t work. Now he’s trying to use this wonderful lady. Why doesn’t King stand on his own two feet and stop trying to stand on the shoulders of respected people (which he is not)? Donald Larrabee Scarborough

On April 19, “The Shout Heard Up the Coast” rally was held in Belfast as part of a nationwide protest against the Trump administration. I chose not to attend, so my focus isn’t on the rally but on the promotional poster, an invitation to protest in order to defend, among other things, “American values.” But […]

In the Opinion section of the April 23 Press Herald, Chelsea Henderson voices her support for Sen. Angus King’s “grilling” of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard on the vulnerability of our nation’s naval facilities to sea level rise caused by, of course, global warming. As an example, Ms. Henderson warns us that sea level rise […]

I have noticed a chilling uptick in the number of people refusing to be fully identified in the media, stating “fear of retribution” when asked to comment on actions of the current administration. Similarly, how frequently, following these stories, the (fill in the blank department/individual/administration) “did not respond to requests for comment.” Add to this […]

Let me get this straight — people say they are worried about the environment? OK, then answer me these questions: In cities like Lewiston or Portland — or any city for that matter — is it normal to tear down perfectly good buildings? To scrap structurally sound building materials? Or, to waste unnecessary energy tearing […]

I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking about terrified people trying to sleep without a mattress or blanket in the gulag we sent them to in El Salvador. Any of us could suddenly be seized from the street by masked and armed enforcers, handcuffed and sent into a gulag where are deprived of contact with our […]