Steel and aluminum tariffs pinch manufacturers, but the biggest potential threat is in the way Canadians retaliate
2018
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First wife of suspect in stepdaughter’s beating death calls him abusive
The woman says Julio Carrillo, now held in the fatal beating in Maine, was ‘dangerous,’ controlling and hurting her regularly.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Reducing regulations isn’t the solution to high cost of child care
There is no question that we must make child care availability and quality a high priority in Maine. I am a child care provider in Maine and I write in response to the Feb. 15 letter on deregulating child care (“Regulations needlessly add to expense of child care”). There is always room to improve regulations […]
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Letter to the editor: When public ‘says something’ about a threat, law enforcement ought to ‘do something’
So, we have learned that the FBI had received information regarding the volatility of Nikolas Cruz. The FBI and local law enforcement did not act on this information. As a result of that inaction, 17 children and adults died. Then we learned that concerned neighbors had alerted police and the Maine Department of Health and […]
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Letter to the editor: South Portland limits on short-term rentals punish many for actions of a few
We are very sad and disappointed at the South Portland City Council’s decision to ban all non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, starting this fall. We have been visiting family in Portland for 35 years now, and we were thrilled to happen upon the perfect arrangement for our annual/biannual visits to Maine. My husband’s family has been in […]
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Letter to the editor: Paper backs election security, so why not support voter picture IDs?
Re: “Our View: U.S. election security should be top priority” (March 2): Oh, the hypocrisy. The editors are worried about Russian intrusion in our election process. I get that. Just for laughs and giggles, would you explain to me, one more time, why showing a picture ID is so disenfranchising that you would not allow […]
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Letter to the editor: Think of fearful students, teachers, parents before resisting more gun controls
It’s all over the media: gun violence within schools and what to do about it. Despite hearing children beg for change, many believe this is not the time for change. For those of you who believe that now is not the time, I challenge you to take a new viewpoint: Look at it as if […]
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Letter to the editor: Consider how BIW benefits workers, families, state when deciding on tax incentive
My family owes a lot to Bath Iron Works. My father worked there for 26 years as a blacksmith. Dad, as he so eloquently put it, “smashed the poop out of things” for eight hours a day. At the end of the day he clocked out, picked us up from school, made dinner, did laundry […]
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Letter to the editor: Students don’t want schools to suspend classes for walkout
A number of schools have suspended class time to permit students to participate in the national walkout protesting gun violence (“Portland allows students to join March 14 walkout,” March 4, Page C2). While I understand that this effort stems from a supportive place, school administrators are completely missing the point. If protesters are not missing […]