letter to the editor

Published
June 7, 2019

Letter to the editor: Maine independents are denied a role in picking presidential nominees

Here are three reasons why Maine needs to open up its caucuses to allow everyone to vote in them: First, many other states in the U.S. already have open primaries or caucuses; 36, to be exact. There is no reason why we can’t have what three-quarters of the rest of the country already has. Second, […]
Published
June 7, 2019

Letter to the editor: Nobody speaks for those affected by Portland’s high cost of living

I am a disabled veteran who was forced into early retirement for health reasons. I live on a street with no curbs, no sidewalks and no fire hydrant. The street that leads to my street has no hydrant. There is no Northern Utilities gas pipe on either of these streets. I do not now, nor […]
Published
June 7, 2019

Letter to the editor: Brash leaders can also be effective ones

Critics of Donald Trump are advised to look at the track record of a similarly derided British politician.
Published
June 6, 2019

Letter to the editor: NECEC offers hydropower to replace nuclear power

In an Associated Press story published June 1 on Page B3, the Portland Press Herald reported that the shutdown of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, could increase carbon emissions in the short term because of greater reliance on gas- and oil-burning plants. But in a couple of years, the New England Clean […]
Published
June 6, 2019

Letter to the editor: Lowering of flag a reminder of lives lost to shootings

Our nation's response to these recurrent tragedies is symbolic when it should also be substantive.

Published
June 6, 2019

Letter to the editor: Maine Work Credit will help small businesses, too

Last year we transitioned our business, Rock City Coffee in Rockland, into an employee-owned cooperative. We did so because we value workers – and you know how hard it is for working folks to get by. Fortunately, our state Legislature’s Taxation Committee recently voted 10-1 to advance L.D. 1491, a bipartisan bill that would help […]
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June 6, 2019

Letter to the editor: Protect working waterfront – including intertidal lands

There was a Maine supreme court ruling a couple months ago that said that because seaweed isn’t a fish, it belongs to the person who lives nearby on the shore – like their trees. L.D. 1323 is the result of our elected legislators finally saying, “Wait a minute, people have been harvesting seaweed for centuries” […]
Published
June 5, 2019

Letter to the editor: Vital information missing from coverage of Buckner’s death

There were two notable omissions from the coverage in the Portland Press Herald of the death of Bill Buckner, the George Armstrong Custer of America’s national pastime. First, Boston manager John McNamara failed to insert a late-inning defensive substitution for the ailing Buckner. This seemingly inexplicable blunder has been popularly ascribed to sentimentality on the […]
Published
June 5, 2019

Letter to the editor: Accessible mental health care key to preventing suicide

I am being sent to Washington, D.C., from June 9 through 12 by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to advocate suicide awareness and prevention. I am a transgender man and a trauma survivor. I have struggled with suicide off and on since I was 12. The last time I struggled I had been hospitalized […]
Published
June 5, 2019

Letter to the editor: Tell legislators to stop proposed CMP power line

Two bills – L.D. 1383 and L.D. 1363 – would give those in affected towns a voice and local control in permitting decisions.

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