Letters

Published
December 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: Rezoning Elks Lodge land for business makes no sense

The Elks Lodge wants to change the zoning for its 7-acre parcel on outer Congress Street from residential to business. But the mayor and City Council shouldn’t allow it – we have a critical shortage of residential housing. The Elks don’t want to develop the land for residential use, even though it has been zoned […]
Published
December 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: America has higher ideals than keeping people safe

Ayla Brown had just finished her rendition of the national anthem Tuesday, with the words “land of the free and the home of the brave” still reverberating through the building, when the candidates taking part in the Republican presidential debate began telling us how scared we all are. The solution to our fear, they said, […]
Published
December 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Portland’s brick sidewalks not so unsafe, and they give the city character

Re: “Letter to the editor: Brick sidewalk replacement is both costly and unwarranted” (Dec. 9): Like letter writer Margot McCain, I too love our sidewalks. I suffer from vertigo and have had a few spills because of it, so I tend to be careful wherever I walk and sometimes use a cane. However, when I […]
Published
December 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Groups working to destroy Second Amendment rights mistaken about loophole

OK, enough is enough. Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action are working toward destroying our Second Amendment rights. They have petitioners around the state to try to get universal background checks and close the so-called gun show loophole. The fact is that there is no such thing as the gun show loophole. If […]
Published
December 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Lewiston should opt for ranked-choice over costly and administratively inefficient runoff elections

On Dec. 8, Lewiston voters returned to the polls to determine the winner of the runoff election between Mayor Robert Macdonald and his challenger, Ben Chin. While Lewiston has utilized the runoff format in a number of elections, this is an administratively inefficient and financially unsustainable system – representing the most expensive method to ensure […]

Published
December 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Shaw’s president should OK more food donations in Maine

When Shaw’s corporate headquarters told their Brunswick and Bangor stores to stop donating near-expired food to local soup kitchens, locals wrote letters and emails and called the corporate headquarters. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree got involved, and the company reinstated donations over dumping. But many of us learned for the first time that every other store […]
Published
December 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Zumwalt’s many innovations warrant heavy investment

Re: “Another View: Navy’s Maine-built, $4 billion experiment is finally afloat” (Dec. 12): I served as a petty officer on a 302-foot destroyer escort and take great issue with the Bloomberg View editorial that you published on the new Zumwalt! This 600-foot, sleek, fast, safe and innovative warship has half the complement of my old […]
Published
December 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Maine prison system’s ‘solution’ to mailed drugs goes too far

Maine’s Department of Corrections has proposed a 26-page amendment to its prisoner discipline policy. It provides that unauthorized correspondence with a pen pal, with the media, or with the outside world, for that matter, will all be a Class B or C offense, punishable by extended periods of isolation and fines of $50 or $75. […]
Published
December 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Clarification on machine guns: Law still allows public to buy them

Re: “Commentary: Assault weapons ban is easily skirted and doesn’t lessen gun violence”: Adam Winkler’s logic in his Dec. 16 piece on the limits of legislation banning assault weapons is more or less on target, but his facts are a little shaky. His statement that the sale of machine guns to civilians was banned by […]
Published
December 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Terrorists will never win out, so no need to support Trump

The other day, I said to my friend Andre, “The Donald isn’t doing the Republican brand a whole lot of good.” Andre’s reply: “He’s not doing much for America’s brand either.” True dat. Mr. Trump’s popularity is just a symptom of unreasonable hyperbolic fear. He would not be capable of running this fine country and […]

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