Letters

Published
January 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Drug-testing can be for welfare recipient’s own good

The Jan. 14 front-page article titled “State ready to drug-test some welfare applicants” is more than resourceful for where money is being used, and where the focus is for the welfare of the state and the well-being for individuals. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families would be remiss to not take into consideration where individuals are […]
Published
January 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Climate-warming statistics often intentionally deceive

In response to the Associated Press article published Jan. 16 (“NOAA, NASA say 2014 warmest year on record”): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated that “2014 averaged … 1.24 degrees above the 20th-century average,” and NASA agreed that it was the hottest as compared to the 1951-1980 average. We have two agencies saying the […]
Published
January 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage call for Fitzsimmons’ resignation was ‘extreme surprise’

I had the pleasure of working for Dr. John Fitzsimmons years ago. He was a very effective supervisor, and his talents were recognized quickly; he moved on to bigger challenges with the Department of Labor and then the Maine Community College System. We coached football together and played softball, and anyone who knows him understands […]
Published
January 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: There’s more support for Obamacare than polls show

Recent polls showing Obamacare at a 39 percent approval rating are misleading. Disapproval doesn’t mean that Obamacare should be repealed. Many people who disapprove want to keep the Affordable Care Act because repealing it would be a step backward. My friend Don, for example, disapproves of the ACA because he favors a single-payer system. He […]
Published
January 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Avoid overtaxing Maine nonprofits; establish a public service fee

The proposal to tax certain nonprofits (with an assessed value over $500,000) at the prevailing property tax rate seems abusive. Many of these organizations may find it necessary to go out of business, or reduce their services significantly. In the spirit of good citizenship, there are some nonprofits that currently volunteer donations to their town […]

Published
January 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Inform readers about atrocities in Nigeria

With the exception of a few small paragraphs buried in the middle of a recent edition of the Maine Sunday Telegram (“Hundreds slaughtered by militants in Nigeria,” Page A8, Jan. 11), there has been zero coverage in your newspaper of the deadliest massacre to date by Boko Haram in the country of Nigeria. It is […]
Published
January 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Access to health insurance helps new-business owners

As a new-business owner and a longtime advocate for access to quality health care, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to be able to access my health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. A couple of years ago, I made the decision to leave a career that provided me with health coverage […]
Published
January 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Use one football per game to avoid inflation controversies

I am surprised to learn that it takes 12 footballs for each side to play a game in the NFL. To avoid situations such as “Deflategate,” the rest of the world uses only one ball per game. It would be replaced only if it loses air or an unscrupulous fan walked off with it. Anthony […]
Published
January 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Obama should heat up his rhetoric in economic fight

We all know by now that being “middle-class” is an outmoded intellectual construct. The iconic image of the tasteful home in the ‘burbs with the requisite children, a happy mom and dad and a full refrigerator stuffed with bleeding roasts and TV dinners was a cruel illusion on just about every level. That’s why the […]
Published
January 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Abortion argument tainted by biased information

Dr. Aaron Hoffman’s column (“Maine Voices: Women empowered by having access to health care, including abortion,” Jan. 22) is so full of bias and misinformation it boggles the mind. Given only 300 words, I’ll have to pick and choose my examples. He cites an “independent” report by the Guttmacher Institute. The institute is really nothing […]

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