Letters

Published
July 3, 2015

Letter to the editor: City’s generosity makes me proud, state misses mark

I would like to express how proud I am of the Portland City Council. In reaction to the decision by the state of Maine to deny aid to individuals fleeing persecution, the City Council chose to provide food, shelter, clothing and housing to an estimated 900 asylum seekers. What is remarkable is that, based on […]
Published
July 2, 2015

Letter to the editor: Casco Bay steward offers kudos to chemical-free lawn care professionals

Kudos to Scott Eldredge and John Bochert of Eldredge Lumber & Hardware for their June 23 Maine Voices column (“Protecting waterways both moral imperative and good business”). Friends of Casco Bay has long delivered the ecological lawn care message to homeowners associations, garden clubs, neighborhood socials, church groups and grass-roots community organizations. Businesspeople who speak […]
Published
July 2, 2015

Letter to the editor: Marriage, ACA rulings show U.S. is still ‘pretty amazing place’

Back in 1993, when I was the young mayor of Lewiston, the City Council and I supported an ordinance that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the areas of employment, housing, credit and public accommodation. We were crucified in public, with the most extreme opponents complaining that we were promoting bestiality, transvestism […]
Published
July 2, 2015

Letter to the editor: Scarborough school board merits respect, not derision

Imagine for a moment that the state or federal aid upon which the staffing and operations of our town’s public safety departments had come to depend was cut dramatically – and in response, our town’s police and fire officials requested modest local tax increases in order to offset those funding losses and thereby maintain critical […]
Published
July 2, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage callousness breaks Lady Liberty’s promise

Millions of immigrants, many of whom were our own parents, grandparents and ancestors, have been greeted upon their arrival to our shores by the Statue of Liberty. Every American citizen, native-born or naturalized, can be justly proud of this “world-wide welcome that glows from her beacon hand,” to paraphrase Emma Lazarus’ famous poem. However, compassionate […]

Published
July 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: Fuller coverage of prostate cancer needed

Re: “Prostate cancer common, but often treatable,” by Eric Russell, Page A8, June 23: Any coverage of prostate cancer alerts men to a likely health challenge. At age 80, more than 80 percent will have enlarged prostates and 80 percent will have cancer cells in their prostate. But coverage of this challenge pales to that […]
Published
July 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: With all due respect, this governor should resign

I wrote to Gov. LePage today and requested he resign from his elected position. The governor’s recent actions and statements have destroyed any effective role he may have in the continued governance of the great state of Maine. I believe we deserve a governor who works with positive effect for the people of this great […]
Published
July 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: Portland’s soaring rents cause spike in homelessness

Many articles have been written lately about the homeless population in Portland and the new building surge in the city. No one is addressing the obvious: They are related. These new “market-rate” apartments are out of the reach of most natives. People who were born here can’t afford to live here anymore. If I hadn’t […]
Published
July 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: Time to remove rebel banner from public venues

The battle flag of the Confederate States of America does not deserve any official or quasi-official standing in the United States. The fact is that it grew out of a treasonous rebellion against our country. Those who say that the flag had nothing to do with slavery are deluding themselves. Without slavery, we would have […]
Published
July 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins must take stronger stance against polluters

Sometimes, attacks on our environment are direct: For example, the bill introduced in May that would block the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule, the biggest step forward for clean water in a decade. Other times, the attacks come from sneaky, backdoor avenues: like when anti-environmental policy “riders” crept into the fiscal year 2016 spending […]

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