Portland Press Herald News Stories

Here's what to expect when our lifelines vanish. It won't be pretty.

From failing grades to failing health, the issue is a serious one for our state's students. Portland schools now have the opportunity to lead.

Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram photographer Brianna Soukup was there as students at Mt. Blue High School got ready to dance away a rainy night at their prom this year.

We went to Old Orchard Beach, Bar Harbor and Belgrade to see how business owners and local leaders are preparing for a summer of uncertainty.

Today 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are being starved to death while a three-month supply of food and other urgently needed humanitarian aid is being blocked by the Israeli army at the border. Israeli warships, for decades, have patrolled the Mediterranean Sea to deny aid from the rest of the world from reaching the people […]

Serious problems demand bold solutions. Our elected officials are coming up short.

I want to thank and compliment Victoria Hugo-Vidal on her very informative column on May 18 regarding the Digital Equity Act and how important its programs are to rural Maine. This act was included in a bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law under the Biden administration. The bill included programs to improve high-speed internet and […]

My energetic, discipline-challenged American bulldog is doing her best.

Some of us remember John Lennon’s (of the Beatles) claim of the band being “more popular than Jesus” and the uproar that followed. Here we are, 59 years later, with a celebrity president who gets more coverage in each 24-hour period, every day, than Jesus or God — and nobody’s objecting. Even the evangelicals. His […]

I agree with the May 17 letter to the editor about the importance of not removing rails to make the Merrymeeting Trail. Land transportation efficiency increases from cars to buses and trucks to rail being the most efficient. This causes the carbon footprint to be reduced proportionately. Positives that Steven didn’t mention include that passengers […]