Letters

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February 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Shelter dogs may better represent state than Labs do

The first time I heard about a Labrador retriever as the Maine state dog, I envisioned issues (“Labrador retriever could fetch a state honor,” Feb. 2). Most of us dog lovers think that our dog would be the best to represent Maine. This stimulated my thinking. Let’s declare our state dog to be the shelter […]
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February 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Correcting bill mistakes should be a simpler process

I am writing this letter to all those companies that want customers to pay their bills online. If, however, there are those of us who prefer to pay by check, it takes you at least an hour of your time to straighten out a mistake. It is almost impossible to get a representative to help […]
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February 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Climate claims don’t seem to hold up to the weather

David Dilley of Global Weather Oscillations takes issue with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA findings on climate change (“Letter to the editor: Climate-warming statistics often intentionally deceive,” Jan. 28). To buttress his point of view that we have nothing to fear from global warming, Mr. Dilley cites weather patterns from thousands of years […]
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February 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Gaining civil rights for Shias should be top priority

Re: “Hezbollah missiles kill two, escalate clashes” (Jan. 29): Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of […]
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February 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Warming warnings may be apparent when water rises

Re: “M.D. Harmon: No sound basis for concluding 2014 was ‘warmest year on record’ “ (Jan. 30): Mr. Harmon’s latest attempt to dismiss global climate change reminded me of a conversation I had last summer with someone who insisted the Earth is 4,000 years old. He was pleasant enough, but really, what’s the point? Mr. […]

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February 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Columnist Harmon’s choice of tabloid source amusing

I’m amused but not surprised to see that M.D. Harmon has based his latest rant about global climate change entirely on an article from the Daily Mail (“No sound basis for concluding 2014 was ‘warmest year on record,’ “ Jan. 30). The Mail is a celebrity-hounding British tabloid whose name in England is synonymous with […]
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February 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Train station usage in Portland merits closer look

Your Jan. 31 print edition ran a story headlined “City dreams of a bigger train station,” with the subheadline “The current station is maxed out.” This may imply to the casual reader that train passengers have overwhelmed the existing station. Buried in the story is the fact that Concord Coach Lines is the station’s biggest […]
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February 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Kudos to Central Maine Power for tree trimming

One story from the recent snowstorms that deserves attention is the lack of power outages despite deep snow and severe winds. Kudos to Central Maine Power Co. and their contractors for trimming the trees that otherwise could cause downed power lines. The once-routine outages in our neighborhood have become a distant memory. Thanks and keep […]
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February 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Questions remain despite reporting on important vaccination debate

Thank you for your continued reporting on vaccinations. It’s a very important debate. I am still trying to understand this: If I am vaccinated and someone else is not, how are they a threat to me? Also, our family is fairly well-vaccinated, because my wife travels to Africa for work and we occasionally go with […]
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February 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Fixing tax codes is different than eliminating taxes

With federal, state and local political office winners being sworn in after midterm elections, people took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Another round of hypocrisy begins. Every president, governor or legislative body elected during the last hundred years has blatantly ignored any part of the Constitution that got in the way of their agenda […]

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