Letters

Published
July 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Assign oversight of veterans’ needs to those with more clout
Published
July 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Forest City Cemetery in South Portland merits more than mowing

The city of Portland should be very ashamed. My grandparents, uncles and, most recently, my mother are interred in Forest City Cemetery, which the city owns. Until two years ago, my mother and her sister (who now lives in California) had taken care of the family plot. For years my mother asked the caretakers of […]
Published
July 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins’ good work should extend beyond helping Bath

Sen. Susan Collins continues to assist Bath Iron Works and its unions in getting contracts to build ships. Bath Iron Works is owned by General Dynamics, a corporation netting $2.4 billion in 2013. Sen. Collins is to be congratulated in helping General Dynamics and Bath’s population of more than 8,000. However, how about the other […]
Published
July 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Keystone pipeline would bring jobs, enhance national and world security

When will we: • Learn to mitigate the pain that continues to emanate from the Middle East, once again in the form of strangling oil supplies – but not, for a change, for greed but rather because of the political unrest (it’s always one or the other) now ravaging Iraq? • Work to extract more of […]
Published
July 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Maine DEP urged to fill information gap on phthalates

As a young woman and student, I am very concerned about toxic chemicals in our everyday products that could have serious effects on my future health. Recently I have heard a lot in the news about phthalates – chemicals that can cause serious reproductive health disorders, early puberty in girls and asthma. The everyday products […]

Published
July 1, 2014

Letter to the editor: Train layover facility has drawbacks for Brunswick

Re: “Decision for Amtrak is a ‘huge’ win,” June 18: With the Federal Rail Administration concluding that a 650-foot-long Brunswick train layover facility will have no signiﬁcant impact on the environment, Patricia Quinn and her cohorts at the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority apparently construe this to be concurrence with their claim of its […]
Published
July 1, 2014

Letter to the editor: Maine Department of Education should seize opportunity to define ‘proficiency’

The Maine Department of Education’s new proficiency-based graduation requirements have sparked much debate; however, many educators and administrators are missing the intent of this new mandate. Proficiency has been misconstrued to somehow mean mastery of a subject. However, in its essence, proficiency actually means to accomplish. Passing a driver’s test means one is proficient enough […]
Published
July 1, 2014

Letter to the editor: Editorial inspires 2 more ideas for reining in college costs

The thoughtful June 23 editorial (“Our View: To ease student loan burden, rein in college costs”) was excellent, and I would like to add some suggestions: We seem to like record-keeping for sports. How about scores for school performance, too? Specifically, let’s ask colleges to report how much they are lowering their costs each year. […]
Published
July 1, 2014

Letter to the editor: Eliot Cutler works to fix problems faced by veterans

I am a veteran and served for 12 years, including with the 133rd Engineer Battalion in Iraq and Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. I was offended by the article speculating about the effect of the Veterans Affairs scandal on the candidacy of Mike Michaud (“VA scandal could impact Maine’s gubernatorial race,” May 22). Long wait times […]
Published
June 30, 2014

Letter to the editor: Number of school shootings is a call for action on guns

In the United States, a school shooting has occurred on average every four days in 2014, according to the website allgov.com. What an alarming statistic! If a species cannot protect its young – its future – does anything else really matter? We regulate the safety features of our cars. We regulate the right to drive […]

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