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The army of volunteers behind the Press Herald Toy Fund has been busy for weeks, unpacking, sorting and repackaging toys and books that fill the South Portland workshop. On Tuesday, a cheerful group of volunteers took on a task that is a perennial favorite at the workshop and a sign that the annual gift drive […]

Editorial cartoonists are obviously entitled to express their opinions, but distorting the facts crosses a line. Bob Engelhart’s cartoon on May 18 (Page A4) crossed that line. It implied that Special Counsel John Durham’s report was a waste of time and money. On the contrary, the report cites chapter and verse about how the FBI, […]

From the sound of snapping tree limbs to neighbors who shared food and heat to the unexpected joys of indoor camping, Mainers share a flood of memories about the Ice Storm of 1998.

From the sound of snapping tree limbs to neighbors who shared food and heat to the unexpected joys of indoor camping, Mainers share a flood of memories about the Ice Storm of 1998.

In 2010, the Democratic Obama administration succeeded in authorizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It did so without setting up a funding mechanism dependent on congressional appropriation, instead giving the bureau an automatic draw against the revenue generated by bank assessments and bond interest gained by the Federal Reserve Bank. In doing this, the Obama […]

Letter to the editor: First Amendment doesn’t pertain to private colleges’ invitations Share In his eagerness to “school” Maine Millennial columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal about the reality and dangers of “cancel culture,” letter writer John Voyer (April 11) claims that Smith College disinviting Christine Lagarde as commencement speaker “was a violation of freedom of speech.” This is itself a distortion of the reading of the First Amendment, which states in full: “Congress shall ...