Letters

Published
December 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Homeless camps in Portland are intimidating

As an older and slightly handicapped female walking in the Portland area, I am sometimes intimidated by homeless camps along the Portland Trails and in green spaces. I’ve been seeing more and more such camps. While having empathy and concern for the homeless, I find it intimidating, to say the least, to go by such […]
Published
December 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Warehousing people is no housing solution

Re: “Our View: Rent crisis signals deep economic woes for Maine” (Dec. 13): I enjoyed the excellent fact-filled editorial in the Maine Sunday Telegram concerning Portland’s high-rent crisis, but I disagree with the editor’s suggestion that warehousing the elderly and low-income families into public housing complexes is the solution. People should realize that elderly and […]
Published
December 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Collins’ vote on blocking gun sales is sad

Thank you so much for printing “How Maine’s members of Congress voted.” It surely lets the residents of Maine know what is going on in Washington. How sad that Sen. Susan Collins voted “no” Dec. 3 on an amendment sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would have blocked suspected or known terrorists from being able […]
Published
December 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Homeless have the right to a meal and a warm bed

On the first day of winter, just as I wished my co-workers a merry Christmas, I looked out a window of our office on Monument Square. A parade of people holding candles marched up Preble Street, led by a bagpiper playing carols. My friend explained, “It’s the longest night of the year march to bring […]
Published
December 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Americans are a greater risk than immigrant Muslims

Kudos to letter writer Howard Cutler for finding a justification for Donald Trump’s rather disagreeable position of banning Muslims from America (“Trump is legally correct on restricting Muslims,” Dec. 20). If Mr. Cutler had done a bit more research, he would have found several statistics that would give him something to fear more than Muslims. […]

Published
December 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Review’s ‘sensual’ description is just nonsensical grammar

I’ve regularly read with amusement the restaurant reviews by James Schwartz; on Dec. 6, with amazement, too (“Dine Out Maine: Dinner becomes a sensual Southeast Asian experience at Temp Dulu,” Page E2). Amusement because of the ofttimes-silly concoctions perpetrated on the public by apparently earnest chefs in search of artful surprises; amusement because of the […]
Published
December 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Sense of outrage needed for killings in Burundi

Along with other Americans, I grieved for France during the recent bombings in Paris. However, I am hugely disappointed that we do not express the same shock, anger and sorrow when similar terrorism happens in southern Africa. Aren’t the Burundian people hurting just as much when dozens, if not hundreds, of their countrymen are killed […]
Published
December 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Focus outrage on Congress for quadrupling low-skill visas

While Donald Trump and the outrage machine dominate our news with political soap opera, journalists are failing to report truly useful news. For example, buried in the 2,000-page omnibus budget bill, Congress quadrupled H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign workers, giving away 260,000 jobs, and flooding the labor markets of construction workers, motel-hotel services, truck drivers, […]
Published
December 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Right of return is key issue for Mideast peace

One issue in the Israel-Palestinian impasse involves the return of Palestinian refugees to pre-1967 Israel. It helps to understand more facts than Bob Schaible presents (“Letter to the editor: Fairness to Palestinians will bring lasting peace,” Dec. 15). About 700,000 people left 67 years ago, many of them voluntarily getting their families out of a […]
Published
December 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: ‘Field of Dreams’ makes us focus on a simpler time

While awaiting the recent Republican rumble, I stumbled on “Field of Dreams” – a old movie that I’d forgotten I liked so much. I tuned in during the scene where Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner, looking as young and handsome as I once was) meets writer Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) at Fenway Park. Shortly thereafter, […]

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