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December 30, 2013

Letter to the editor: Mean-spirited governor hurting most vulnerable

We are writing with anger and dismay after reading that Gov. LaPage is proposing to end state funding of General Assistance for asylum seekers. This proposed action is the most heartless in a long string of mean spirited steps depriving help for our most needy and vulnerable neighbors. Asylum seekers are here because they are […]
Published
December 30, 2013

Letter to the editor: English language disasters include endangered adverb

Let us observe a moment of silence for the adverb. The adverb is an endangered grammatical species – thanks to sportscasters, advertisers, the news media, and “English” teachers who haven’t the first idea as to what an adverb is and are passing on their lack of knowledge to their pupils. For those unfamiliar with this […]
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December 30, 2013

Letter to the editor: Victims of human trafficking need help

I’ve been a police officer for 27 years and I recently realized that my perceptions can still change. I participated in a five-part radio series on human trafficking; not because I am expert in any way, but because I know people who can provide valuable and credible information on the subject matter. The response to […]
Published
December 29, 2013

Letter to the editor: Supporters of Obamacare should be voted out of office

If Obamacare is fully implemented, how many cancer patients will die waiting for treatment they can now get immediately? How many who need expensive and extensive care will be denied such resources by bureaucrats tasked to cut costs? How many millions will lose their quality of life because the federal government’s bureaucracy deems the individualized […]
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December 29, 2013

Letter to the editor: Bad business to ignore climate change

Republicans who fight against legislation to stop climate change and also claim to be pro-business, like Gov. LePage, are misinformed and poor businessmen (“LePage points to climate change as plus for Maine,” Dec. 6). There is nothing more anti-business than denying that climate change is occurring. Here’s why: Without a healthy planet, there is no […]

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December 29, 2013

Letter to the editor: This guy often prefers the company of women

I read with interest and some amazement the “tribute to my male friends” capably penned by Vicki Sullivan about her lifetime experiences having male friends (“Maine Observer: Can women and men be friends?,” Dec. 8). I am a married man, and over my lifetime, when single or married, I have had and continue to have […]
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December 29, 2013

Letter to the editor: LePage wrong to embrace climate change as potential profit center

Now that denying the existence of a planetary environmental crisis is no longer viable, expect the talking heads of our media and political environment to start asserting that we must “balance” climate change mitigation with economic expansion, a stance that has the advantage of being temporarily plausible until we remember that infinite growth is impossible […]
Published
December 29, 2013

Letters to the editor: ‘Politics’ and ‘government’ needn’t be dirty words

Greg Kesich’s commentary “LePage should look to Mandela” (Dec. 11) was excellent. His basic point: “Good politician” is not an oxymoron, or a contradiction in terms. I would suggest that his argument be extended to “government,” which, from my reading and listening, is suffering from a similar fate by sounding like a dirty word, something […]
Published
December 28, 2013

Letter to the editor: ‘Gov. Scrooge’ dismisses needs of asylum seekers

Regarding the article “LePage plan would cut some from aid ‘lifeline’ ” (Dec. 24): Is our governor so “bah-humbug” that he has forgotten how most of his/our ancestors found our way to this country/state? He would have trouble finding a more voiceless, fragile and vulnerable population in our state to pick on than those who […]
Published
December 28, 2013

Letter to the editor: Minimum-wage opponent ignores greedy businesses

After reading Martin Jones’ Maine Voices column on the minimum-wage debate (“Increasing the minimum wage a bad way to help the working poor,” Dec. 18), I decided I would love to send him a Christmas Carol … the experience, that is. The genius that was Charles Dickens knew all too well that Mr. Jones’ view […]

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