Letters

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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Police have thankless job and deserve our support

Unlike protesters around the nation, I’m for the police, not the criminals. The police have a thankless job and are rarely commended. I urge them to continue profiling (many criminals are apprehended this way) and not to let their guard down! When a punk or thug is shot and killed by a cop, people are […]
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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Forget your to-do list. Here’s what not to do in new year

You have made some New Year’s resolutions. You will implement these promises into your daily routine for a week or so before you break them. It may be easier not to exercise the following 10 bad examples: 1. Do not say “Sat’day” beyond Maine’s borders. People outside of the Pine Tree State still believe that […]
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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Gov. LePage needs to remember his re-election was no ‘strong victory’

A recent editorial (“Our View: House speaker’s focus on jobs the right priority,” Dec. 29) included in its subheadline a reference to the governor’s “strong victory” in the November election. I would have to take exception to this characterization, asserting that any elected official who has never managed to garner even 50 percent of the […]
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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Panhandlers in Portland are part of city’s diversity

The “Magic of Christmas” may have been lost on the homeless and destitute. Certainly, no good can come from accosting individuals in the street, aggressively panhandling and demanding money from innocent bystanders, such as letter writer Patricia Garrett and her grandson (“Portland should get control of aggressive panhandling,” Dec. 30). The fact remains that the […]
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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: New year is time to count our blessings as Americans

At the beginning of a new year, we all think back over the events of the past year. 2014 was filled with news events that could cause even the most positive thinking of us to feel much anxiety about the future. Wars, strained race relations, debt, political tensions – the list of things we worry […]

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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Society needs to find ways to help troubled families

While I was inspired by Merle Steva’s message on the Dec. 20 Religion page (“Reflections: What is the home that calls us at Christmas?”), I could not but think of the dysfunctional families that lack such love and caring. I frequently read in the Press Herald accounts of spouse abuse or child abuse. Such incidents […]
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January 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Lack of health care coverage hits women hard

As a registered nurse who believes unquestionably that health care is a human right, I’ve tried unsuccessfully to understand the governor’s reasoning behind denying federally funded Medicaid access to 70,000 Mainers, all of whom make less than $12,000 a year. He has said that he doesn’t want the state to take on any of the […]
Published
January 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Cianbro still brandishing corridor ax

It’s been over six years since the Cianbro Corp. published its feasibility study on the 220-mile strip of industrial development known as the East-West Corridor. Since Cianbro CEO Peter Vigue met with strident opposition after airing his plan before the Penobscot County commissioners in Bangor in May 2013, the status of this construction project – […]
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January 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Altered freshwater inflows unhealthy for Casco Bay

The many years of work by Baykeeper Joe Payne and the Friends of Casco Bay are appreciated. In the Dec. 7 Bill Nemitz column, “Keeper’s quiet power leaves Casco Bay better, but still at risk,” Payne states, “Lately I’ve taken to saying nitrogen is going to be the death of us.” I support this statement […]
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January 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Dictionary’s ‘compassion’ warmer than DHHS version

After reading Mary Mayhew’s recent op-ed in the Press Herald defending the LePage administration’s welfare reform policies (“Le-Page administration’s welfare reform policies inherently compassionate,” Dec. 5), I began to question my own understanding of “compassion.” It was Jim Means’ subsequent letter supporting Mayhew’s version (“DHHS Chief Mayhew gets that success is moving people off welfare,” […]

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