Letters

Published
August 4, 2013

Letters to the editor: Looming hospital closure deplored

St. Andrews Hospital’s impending closure, outlined July 28 (“Boothbay region ‘full of fear’ as hospital closing looms“), deserves comment in this state with many small hospitals. St. Andrews is a special kind of hospital, called a “critical access hospital,” one of 1,340 such small rural hospitals in the U.S. These hospitals were intended to meet […]
Published
August 3, 2013

Letters to the editor: Commuter enjoys the road less traveled

I was a Maine Turnpike Authority “frequent flier” for more than 20 years, commuting from our home in Portland to my job in Lewiston five days a week. When the MTA decided to get greedy (my opinion) and in turn intentionally harm all toll road commuters in Maine by discontinuing the wonderful commuter E-ZPass program, […]
Published
August 2, 2013

Letters to the editor: Collins’ immigration vote helps families

As an immigrant from Burundi and an asylum seeker, I can say that now is the time to enact common-sense immigration reform. We need a system that creates a fair roadmap to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who are eager to contribute to their new community. Many members of the immigrant communities have lived in […]
Published
August 1, 2013

Letters to the editor: Car chase’s outcome has bigger lesson

I appreciated Bill Nemitz’s recent column “Suspect owes her life to Saco officers’ restraint” (July 24), even more for what was unsaid/implied. Imagine that, instead of rushing after Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman had heeded a 911 dispatcher’s request and waited for police to assist him. I can’t speak for Florida’s finest, but if the responding […]
Published
July 31, 2013

Letters to the editor: Environmentalists silent on wind threat

It is interesting that after more than a century of damming our rivers for hydropower, we are now restoring these rivers. The removal of the Veazie dam is just one example of the efforts new being made so fish can once again swim upstream to spawn. More than a century ago, when these dams were […]

Published
July 30, 2013

Letters to the editor: Unneeded rules limit blood donations

As a regular blood donor for more than 30 years, and having known Brian Hodges for several years, I read with interest your July 13 story regarding policies that restrict blood donations from gays (“Gay man’s Portland blood donation fails again”). I could not help but be reminded of past policies restricting transfusions among races. […]
Published
July 29, 2013

Letters to the editor: Tar sands ban will help rein in warming

Regarding the recent story “Critics sound alarm on S. Portland plan to ban tar sands oil” (July 24): No, of course Larry Wilson, president of Portland Pipe Line Corp., is not an evil person, nor are his employees and affiliated workers. And I don’t doubt that his company is well managed. But the members of […]
Published
July 28, 2013

Letters to the editor: Report on aging raises key issues

Regarding “A special report: The challenge of our age,” July 21: Kudos to Kelley Bouchard and Tom Bell of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and Paul Koenig of the Kennebec Journal for doing such a great job in reporting the struggle of the burgeoning population of Maine’s elderly and the Department of Health and […]
Published
July 27, 2013

Letters to the editor: Rally story parrots ‘race-baiting phrases’

Regarding the July 23 article “About 200 rally in Portland in Trayvon Martin’s memory“: How pathetic has the Press Herald become, when it copies race-baiting phrases such as “white” Hispanic when describing George Zimmerman? It was discovered in his recent trial that the media edited audio of Zimmerman to make him sound racist, Photoshopped images […]
Published
July 26, 2013

Letters to the editor: Step up effort toward nuclear reduction

8:15 a.m., Aug. 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan: Children are on their way to school. Women are making beds, clearing away the morning dishes. An all-clear sounds after the 7 a.m. air raid warning. And then, the U.S. plane dropped the world’s first atomic weapon. There followed a blinding flash in the sky and a great […]

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