Portland Press Herald News Stories

Tens of thousands of residents in the state could lose health insurance under the budget proposal before Congress.

How can we return to the rule of law? We can demonstrate.

While I am not a fan of Sen. Angus King, I disagree with Kristen Salvatore’s criticism of him for his positions regarding Israel (“Sen. King’s moral leadership on Gaza is coming up short,” May 12). Israel has been at war constantly for its survival ever since it was created in 1948, and it appears that […]

The recent discussions about tariffs ignore our very own hand in the decline of American manufacturing: the complicity of the American consumer. King Trump’s advisors would have us believe “Washington insiders” and “radical left ‘elites’” sold us out; big business merely adjusted to the political winds. It’s a convenient ploy for a man playing to […]

Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Mark Warner, among others, in April submitted a bipartisan bill, the Trade Review Act 2025. It is intended to bring the power of approval and implementation for applying tariffs within the purview of Congress and away from the executive. This meaningful legislation seeks to notify the American […]

The failure is in the funding model. Let's run them at the county level like other regional services.

What remains of a young learner when their capacity for language has been usurped?

Deep within Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness, Atlantic salmon and native brook trout are making a slow but steady comeback.

This letter is a follow-up to Joe Moore’s May 5 op-ed regarding the Voter ID for ME proposal created by the conservative PAC The Dinner Table. This proposal will likely be put to the voters in the November election. It is critical that voters understand several things. • Most importantly, there is negligible voter fraud […]

I am a physician recently retired from practice in Portland. Every day, I saw residents living with lung diseases, such as COPD, asthma and lung cancer, who depended on access to treatments and medications as well as clean air to ensure that they can stay healthy enough to work, go to family events and live […]