Letters

Published
August 7, 2015

Letter to the editor: Asylum seekers’ waiting period cuts down on scam applications

In 1993, “60 Minutes” did a story on an increasingly popular asylum scam in which incoming migrants would destroy their travel documents, claim political persecution at home and apply for asylum. They would receive work documents and then disappear into the growing population of undocumented migrants. Faced with such rising asylum claims, the Clinton administration […]
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August 7, 2015

Letter to the editor: All evidence in Dechaine case should go before a jury

Re: “Greg Kesich: It is time for Dechaine’s champions to lay case to rest” (July 22): According to Portland Press Herald editorial page editor Greg Kesich, retired Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Jim Moore “uses the medical examiner’s testimony to make his own time-of-death calculation, which he says clears (Dennis) Dechaine because (murder victim Sarah) […]
Published
August 7, 2015

Letter to the editor: When will world’s population explosion finally inspire alarm?

Five pages into last Thursday’s paper (July 30) were a few paragraphs about our burgeoning global population (“U.N. foresees unabated population explosion”). “The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050 … there should be 11.2 billion people on Earth by the end of this century,” The Associated […]
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August 7, 2015

Letter to he editor: Boycott Portland Nickelodeon until it better protects staff

Please consider boycotting the Nickelodeon Cinemas in Portland until it takes some action to secure the safety of its young and underpaid employees. On Tuesday night, when my daughter was the only employee up front, a man showed a gun and robbed the cash drawer (“Portland’s Nickelodeon Cinemas robbed at gunpoint,” Aug. 5). It was […]
Published
August 6, 2015

Letter to the editor: Life in a social democracy beats win-lose capitalism

Columnist Cynthia M. Allen of Texas touts the virtues of free-market (trickle-down) conservative (corporate) economics in her op-ed (“Conservatives do care about people, and do better at lifting them up,” July 25). She fails to realize that our win-lose capitalism creates far more losers; witness America’s shrinking middle class while far too many live below […]

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August 6, 2015

Letter to the editor: Harmful insurance changes also were made by Obama

Your newspaper published a front-page article on July 31 (“Remembering a heroin addict: Assessing loss, assigning blame”) about someone who blamed Gov. LePage for his ex-wife’s drug overdose death, citing her inability to receive restructured MaineCare, the subsidized health insurance for low-income citizens. President Obama restructured health insurance with the Affordable Care Act, also a […]
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August 6, 2015

Letter to the editor: Let’s show the world’s wildlife some mercy

Re: “Love, prosthesis bring a little horsepower to an injured foal” (Aug. 3): The article about Angel, the foal who had to have one of her legs amputated, was wonderful. I was struck by all the kind people who are trying to help her, from the couple who give her and some 30 other rescued […]
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August 6, 2015

Letter to the editor: Rest of Maine should stifle the anti-Portland sentiment

We know that our governor becomes apoplectic every time Portland is even mentioned in his presence. Northern Mainers want to secede because of their dislike for southern Maine. Now Robert Casimiro of Bridgton complains (“Letter to the editor: Portland’s unbridled growth is near a breaking point,” Aug. 3) that Portland is growing too fast for […]
Published
August 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Augusta police sweep is chilling tactic

Re: “Augusta police fan out to crack down” (July 31): Who is the genius who decided that what appears to be a military-style sweep of the city of Augusta is good community policing? There are any number of totalitarian regimes around the world looking for your leadership. The specter of Operation Hot Spot should send […]
Published
August 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: With Iran, Obama and Kerry showed tenacity, vision

Recent letters (“Dealings with Iran feel like a familiar appeasement,” July 18; “Nothing comical about imperiled Israel,” July 27) condemn out of hand the accord reached between Iran and the United States and its allies aimed at keeping nuclear weapons out of the Iranian government’s hands. I, for one, applaud the tenacity and vision of […]

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