Issues like lower health care costs, equal opportunity and secure retirement are forgotten by the GOP.
2017
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins better be ready for blowback from tax bill vote
About two weeks ago, my wife and I were visiting Portland for our anniversary. I was up early on Sunday morning, so I ambled down Exchange Street to a local shop for a coffee. A bit later, I was standing next to a complete stranger, passing the milk and sugar. Unlike me, he was on […]
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Letter to the editor: Sen. King should challenge misguided Collins on tax reform bill
Let’s hope she rediscovers her courage and good judgment and leads a moderate Republican revolt against harmful legislation.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Shame on Sen. Collins for abandoning her constituents
I hope there are more millionaires and Fortune 500 companies in Maine than I am aware of, at least for Sen. Susan Collins’ election future. I think she has made it clear that this is her constituency, rather than us rank-and-file Mainers. She has managed to abandon all of us in the middle class, whose […]
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Letter to the editor: Thanks to Republicans, country going deeper in debt to benefit wealthy
In August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, upon emerging from the No. 11 Group Royal Air Force operations bunker, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood transfixed in thought beside an accompanying British staff officer, looking up at the Spitfire squadrons arching overhead. After several moments in silence, he said, “Don’t speak to me. I have […]
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Letter to the editor: Forget big tax cuts, improve country’s health safety net instead
I am writing, as a constituent from Scarborough, to ask that Sen. Susan Collins reconsider her support for the current tax bill. I strongly urge her to vote “no.” While the amendments and changes Sen. Collins achieved were admirable, I fear they were nothing more than lipstick on a pig. Furthermore, it is already quite […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Hospice of Southern Maine union fights for fair contract
Come join us at a candlelight vigil at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Monument Square in Portland.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Kathleen Parker: ‘Credible accusations’ of sexual misconduct can do lasting collateral damage
Even if one believes all the women who have come forward thus far, a lawmaker’s suicide shows there’s room for self-doubt in our rush to judgment.
Posted inMaine, News
Portland councilors reject mayor’s bid to lead Finance Committee
Ethan Strimling said he wanted to give the popularly elected mayor more influence over the budget process.
Posted inTimes Record
Council approves Pine St. change
BRUNSWICK Despite opposition and concern from neighbors, the Brunswick Town Council has OK’d the discontinuance of a portion of Pine Street. The council voted 7-1 Monday in favor of discontinuing part of the street to accommodate the construction of a support structure on the north side of Whittier Field. Bowdoin College owns the property on […]