Letters

Published
May 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: Can America still count on a civilized election process?

Leonard Pitts’ column of May 11, “Will there be Blood?,” reminded me of an experience I had many years ago in Venezuela. It was November 1976 and I was visiting our office in Caracas during the U.S. election week. Jimmy Carter won the presidency. The morning after the vote, the local general manager came into […]
Published
May 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: IF&W makes puzzling decisions on fishing, hunting

I’m trying to figure out the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. As a lifelong hunter and fisherman, I don’t get it. We have a mild winter so they declare open water fishing in March, not on the date it’s been forever: April 1. Why not have open water fishing year round if you want it any […]
Published
May 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: Hardworking Hobbins merits Maine Senate seat

This letter is in support of Barry Hobbins for state Senate. Politicians come and go, and some of them in Augusta spend a lot of time trying to convince us that they are working hard for us. Barry Hobbins does work hard but he doesn’t waste any of our time promoting himself. He does his […]
Published
May 15, 2016

Letter to the editor: Make room for the governor, but save space for ‘Doonesbury’
Published
May 15, 2016

Letter to the editor: Support for Sanders will go all the way to November

Are you a disenfranchised voter? When looking at our choices in the upcoming election, many people are more than a little frustrated. I was too until I realized that, while the Democratic primary system may be rigged with bought politicians and lobbyists as superdelegates, they still have no control over whom I vote for in […]

Published
May 15, 2016

Letter to the editor: To help our clam population, focus on stopping predators

Thank you for bringing attention to the dramatic decline of Casco Bay soft-shell clam populations with your front-page story “Survival in the flats” (May 1). Prompted by the warnings of concerned clammers, as well as actions taken by the town of Freeport, the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research & Education initiated its Freeport field […]
Published
May 15, 2016

Letter to the editor: In an era of rapid change, poetry surely has a place

Not having read the April 3 article regarding “Maine’s ‘persistent’ legacy of poetry,” I was teased by Tom Fallon’s April 17 letter to the editor. In it, he charged that “poetry does not represent the intellectual … directions of modern civilization,” unlike the different visual art forms that have been created and aptly – we […]
Published
May 15, 2016

Letter to the editor: Governor should resign to help our state grow

Gov. LePage’s opinion piece in the May 8 Maine Sunday Telegram was divisive, rancorous and reprehensible. If anything, this tirade, along with the governor’s increasing testy and uncivil public behavior, only indicates the downward spiral of bad governance yet to come in the next 31 months of his administration. What the governor casually addressed, in […]
Published
May 14, 2016

Letter to the editor: India Street clinic meets dire need while offering excellent service

I’m writing to express my concern at the proposed closure of the India Street Public Health Center, as well as the Portland Community Free Clinic and Needle Exchange. As a property owner in this neighborhood, I’m very disappointed with the proposal to move the free clinic and transfer the India Street location’s other services to […]
Published
May 14, 2016

Letter to the editor: India Street clinic staff expertise is essential link to health

As a consumer at the Positive Health Program of Portland Public Health’s India Street Public Health Center, I am horrified at City Manager Jon Jennings’ proposal to cut funding for the lifeline that has kept me healthy for the past 12 years. A letter was sent out to clinic consumers that services would be moved […]

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