Letters

Published
June 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Repave rather than reconfigure Portland streets

Before the City Council spends one penny of the proposed $3.2 million on making it a nightmare to get from one side of the city to the other, and solving a problem that doesn’t exist, I strongly recommend that it spends money to repave the following streets: • Market from Fore to Middle. • Middle from […]
Published
June 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Fee on carbon emissions would be bargain for world

The New York Times published an editorial June 6 announcing the “welcome development” that six large European gas and oil companies are asking for a fee to be placed on carbon emissions. The oil companies want “an efficient and predictable policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions because they realize that something must be done.” A […]
Published
June 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Maine should not follow Kansas’ example

In 2012, Sam Brownback, the Republican governor of Kansas, and that state’s Republican-majority Legislature enacted sweeping tax cuts, following the trickle-down theory that if wealthy individuals and large corporations paid almost no taxes at all, Kansas’ economy would magically expand to replace the lost revenue. Fast forward three years to 2015: The economy and the […]
Published
June 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Let’s vote to expand income tax if we vote to eliminate it

Gov. LePage wants the proposal to ax the income tax to be put to a public vote. Let’s do him one better. The Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council promote the identical tax policy. The sophomoric book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States” attempts to justify their […]
Published
June 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Critics of Islamic State fight were too quick to jump into Iraq

Neoconservatives and Republican presidential aspirants are jumping all over the president’s 2014 statement that “we don’t have a strategy yet” against the so-called Islamic State. Of course, they leave off the rest of President Obama’s statement: that U.S. generals are drafting their plan while allies in the region are also being consulted. When the very […]

Published
June 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Republicans have problems with race relations history

Re: “Letter to the editor: Party politics just another sign of political enslavement” (June 8): In his narrative of the virtue and innocence of the Republican Party with respect to the treatment of African-Americans from Abraham Lincoln forward, Art Sears conveniently omits a few events: • The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and […]
Published
June 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Bill won’t put guns in criminals’ pockets

Recently I read the blog post written by one of your “Agree to Disagree” columnists, Ethan Strimling, titled “It is time for a People’s Veto on Guns” (June 11). He makes a statement that I feel is an incorrect statement of fact. I offer here what is my understanding of the facts that may have […]
Published
June 17, 2015

Letter to the editor: Cane stolen at candy store has the owner’s name on it

To the person who took my cane from Len Libby’s candy store on Route 1 in Scarborough around 1:15 p.m. on May 1: Because I don’t have the cane, I may fall and spend two or three months in rehabilitation because of broken bones. My name is on the cane. Eileen R. Watters Westbrook
Published
June 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: Governor should expand help to addicts, not cut it

Gov. LePage opposes a proposed state law to expand access to Narcan for overdoses. He has said that this might encourage drug addiction and communicate the message: ” ‘Be a drug addict and we will allow you – we will have everybody on the street have a little pin so that if you croak we […]
Published
June 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: Thank-you to lawmakers for overriding veto, keeping ID protection

AARP Maine commends the Legislature for its recent override of Gov. LePage’s veto of L.D. 382, a measure that will provide free protection against identity theft for Mainers. The governor vetoed “An Act to Amend the Allowable Security Freeze Fees Charged by a Consumer Reporting Agency,” but the Legislature swiftly counteracted. Thanks to the veto […]

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