Letters

Published
May 30, 2015

Letter to the editor: Proposed tax changes will hit property owners

It takes all the revenue from two state tax buckets (income and sales) and our local property tax bucket to cover present state and local governmental expenses. When tax revenues are lowered for a specific tax bucket, as in the case of the governor’s state income tax proposal, the expenses covered by those diminished revenues […]
Published
May 29, 2015

Letter to the editor: There can be no retreat on education

I write to echo Tim Hussey’s column about the need to continue our state’s positive gains in education to support our students’ entry into the workforce (“Maine Voices: Proficiency-based learning readies students for higher education, better jobs,” May 19). While Mr. Hussey writes persuasively as a business CEO about the need to develop a competent […]
Published
May 29, 2015

Letter to the editor: Progressive, humane world should refrain from meat

Climate, habitats and wildlife are under assault worldwide. The new documentary “Cowspiracy” suggests this is primarily because growing food for cows and other edible creatures uses so much land and water, and because the animals themselves produce so much methane (as flatulence). Trauma to Earth’s biological systems will increase as humans proliferate, and more of […]
Published
May 29, 2015

Letter to the editor: Portland’s art exhibits there for the exploring

Many thanks to Bob Keyes for creating and writing about his own walking tour of some of Portland’s public art in the May 21 MaineToday Magazine (“A walking tour of Portland sculpture: From ‘Michael’ to Longfellow, 8 public pieces worth seeing”). He got most of the information in the article from our splendid website, www.publicartportland.org. […]
Published
May 29, 2015

Letter to the editor: Vaccination debate needs shot of common sense

Thank you, Press Herald, for your coverage of issues related to vaccination. We all make decisions based on how we feel. Patients with injuries to certain parts of their brains that generate emotions can’t even decide what to eat for lunch. Emotions play the starring role when we process information. The scientific method asks us […]

Published
May 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Irish gay-marriage vote a victory for life, love

Ireland’s overwhelming vote in favor of marriage equality brings to mind this passage from the Cyclops episode of “Ulysses”: “But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life … […]
Published
May 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: It’s possible to legislate against cellphone stupidity

I was shocked and appalled to read that the Maine House of Representatives has again rejected a bill to prohibit the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. How many more innocent people have to die at the hands of these mobile phone booth morons before the House takes sensible action? By voting against this bill […]
Published
May 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Another step to freedom advances at castle courtyard

It is most fitting that thousands of Irish people would gather last Saturday in the courtyard of Dublin Castle to celebrate the overwhelming approval of the marriage equality referendum (“Ireland votes to legalize gay marriage,” Portland Press Herald, May 23). Here it was in 1922 that seven centuries of British rule ended when Lord Lieutenant […]
Published
May 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: By invoking nuclear genie, what is LePage thinking?

How interesting that Summit Natural Gas of Maine has asked the LePage-appointed public utilities commissioners for permission to pass on millions of dollars of advertising expenses to ratepayers (“Summit: Let customers pay for gas ‘education,’ “ Page A1, May 14). Make big promises, and then pass the expenses on to the public when things don’t […]
Published
May 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: ID laws should expand to halt voter fraud

In 2013, over 13 million Americans had their identity stolen and, according to the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft steadily climbs and tops their list of consumer complaints each year. With this level of identity theft, why wouldn’t we be concerned about voter fraud? Once our identity is stolen, the information is used to access […]

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