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  • Published
    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Congress Square Park a venue to honor MLK

    I’m writing in response to Staff Writer Randy Billings’ Jan. 21 article “Portland still looking to honor King legacy.” Billings reported that Portland city staff are working on a proposal to create an educational memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Bayside Trail. I believe that a location on what’s basically a jogging […]

  • Published
    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Portland needs comprehensive plan to address homelessness

    Without one, there will be a never-ending demand for larger shelters.

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    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Remove Rosemont land from list of shelter sites

    Thank you for publishing the article “Portland officials eye 14 “reasonable’ sites for potential new homeless shelters” (Jan. 22). I cannot speak about the feasibility of all the sites listed, but I strongly disagree with the assessment of the City Council’s Health and Human Services Committee that the Rosemont Fire Station land is a “reasonable” […]

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    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Voters in Ogunquit should oppose recall

    I’ve been living in Ogunquit over 4½ years, having retired after a 40-year career in government and nonprofits and having a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. The Ogunquit recall reminds me of my own experience as an activist, in government, and studying many cases about the process of change in local, […]

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    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: As U.S. faces problems, some answers are in order

    Just a few questions: What if we build a $5.7 billion wall and still have an immigration problem? Should we just add the money to the $5 billion needed to save the farmers and write off the entire $10.7 billion? Why doesn’t Rudy Giuliani retire and save himself and the president more humiliation? Why don’t […]

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    January 24, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Maine should leave Union, join Canada

    I’ve heard that Canada actually pays its government workers for working. If the self-inflicted, dysfunctional chaos in Washington continues, I think Maine should secede from the Union and beg Canada to take us. “Première Mills” has a nice ring to it. Fred Egan York Harbor

  • Published
    January 23, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Federal employees are being held hostage

    Until further notice, they're forced to work without pay because of an impasse unrelated to the work they do.

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    January 23, 2019

    Letter to the editor: Let’s call this shutdown what it is – thievery

    Simple? Yes, and … outrageous. We pay our taxes, to buy our services. Simply. The person we hire to provide those services – the president (who, as we know, runs the executive branch) – owes us those services. No “ifs,” “ands” or “buts.” Still simple. If the president wants to add another “service” (like a […]

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    January 23, 2019

    Letter to the editor: For Democrats, hatred of Trump comes before love of country

    The behavior of the Democratic Party leadership is immoral and nakedly self-serving. Their refusal to fund border security, favored and voted for by a majority of Americans, is disgusting. From the moment that President Trump made the tactical error of saying that he would take responsibility for a shutdown, while attempting with multiple reasonable proposals […]

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    January 23, 2019

    Letter to the editor: CMP doesn’t want you to pull back the curtain

    The recent op-ed by Hydro-Quebec’s paid, in-house scientists to try to make their biased case for Central Maine Power’s proposed transmission line (Jan. 15) is exactly the kind of publicity and false transparency that I have come to expect from the company and CMP. As an attorney who has been deeply involved in well over […]