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Published
July 30, 2012

More letters to the editor: Readers reflect on ACA reforms, state of U.S. health care system

Why I support the Affordable Health Care Act: • Preventive care: Before the ACA, some immunizations were covered and some were not. Before the ACA, some preventive exams were covered some were not. After the ACA, all immunizations and all preventive exams in all health plans in all 50 states are covered. This, of course, […]
Published
July 30, 2012

Letters to the editor: Nemitz column unfair to casino investor

Regarding Bill Nemitz’s casino column (“Future of ‘resort’ based on ‘best guess,”‘ July 25): As a board member of the Oxford Casino, I can’t comment on the Department of Environmental Protection issue, as that is between the state and the court, but I would like to say that comment about Bob Bahre was totally uncalled […]
Published
July 29, 2012

Letters to the editor: UM System shows it’s out of touch

Your July 8 editorial on the “leadership shuffle” at the University of Southern Maine covered all the issues that this regrettably handled transaction raised. By deciding to give Selma Botman — the person he just removed as USM president — a newly created job at the very same salary, $203,000, the new University of Maine […]
Published
July 28, 2012

Letters to the editor: Snowe defends vote on disclosure law

I am responding to a July 21 editorial regarding my vote related to the DISCLOSE Act (Our View, “Maine senators voted wrong on disclosure”). I am an ardent, longtime supporter of full disclosure in campaign advertising, having authored the landmark disclosure provision of the McCain-Feingold 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. Regrettably, this measure was later […]
Published
July 27, 2012

Letters to the editor: Solving pollution at a national level

Extreme weather events, like the storm that flooded parts of Portland in early June, are on the rise. Scientists warn that global warming will bring even more extreme weather in the future, and power plants are the largest U.S. source of the carbon pollution that causes global warming. Maine has been a leader in efforts […]

Published
July 26, 2012

Letters to the editor, July 26, 2012More gun limits won’t make world safer

The echoes of the gunshots in Aurora, Colo., had barely quieted before the gun-control crowd began its predictable call for more gun laws, banning “assault weapons” and large magazines, and more “reasonable” gun laws. I think New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was first. If any of those pipe dreams come to fruition, it will make […]
Published
July 25, 2012

Letters to the editor, July 25, 2012Loose-dog problem persists on Peaks Island

Last summer you published my letter (“Walking dog takes pepper spray, stick,” June 17, 2011) about the lack of compliance and enforcement of the leash law on Peaks Island. After my letter was published, I received much support from islanders who had been attacked by loose dogs and from one person whose cat was killed […]
Published
July 24, 2012

Letters to the editor: EPA could save ballpark full of people

Fenway Park is my favorite place on Earth. Last week, I went to the Boston Red Sox game versus the Chicago White Sox where Kevin Youkilis made his return to Fenway. Looking out into the sold-out crowd of 37,700, I was struck by a recent statistic I heard. If the Environmental Protection Agency updates its […]
Published
July 23, 2012

Letters to the editor: Popular bike, walking trails underfunded

Last month, Congress passed the Federal Transportation Act of 2012. The legislation was touted as a “jobs bill,” as it includes funding for transportation infrastructure projects. However, the bill cut funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects by 33 percent nationally, reversing years of progress on biking and walking policy. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine is […]
Published
July 22, 2012

Letters to the editor: Fireworks are legal – what next?

I would like to commend the ladies and gentlemen of the Maine Legislature for expending the time (and money) it took during the last year to return to us the God- and Constitution-given right to buy fireworks and use them to relentlessly affirm our patriotism, blow off our fingers, set fire to our apartment buildings, […]

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