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  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Letter: City dropped the ball on Congress Square

    Hats off to you folks on your narrative regarding the unnecessary delays and bureaucratic bungling on this project (“Our View: Congress Square deserves better,” March 23). Here is an example of the city “saving money” by not hiring a clerk of the works to represent its interests. Too often city hubris gets in the way […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Letter: Overpasses key to traffic woes

    I’ve been saying this for a very long time: In order to fix our broken highway problems, we need to bring overpasses into the picture. Bigger cities than ours have had to do this to help relieve traffic issues. One example would be following the train tracks – perhaps starting from St. John Street all […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Letter: Dealing with the facts and faces of gun violence

    A false contrast between firearms as an economic engine versus a unique episode of violence (the mass shooting in Lewiston) was framed in the March 8 op-ed on firearm legislation in Maine (“Do not punish Mainers for Lewiston shooting”). It is convenient to overlook other tragedies (such as in Bowdoin and Maine’s higher-than-average suicide by […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Letter: Inflammatory language obscures gun safety debate

    Parroting rhetoric from the gun lobby does nothing to address public safety.

  • Published
    March 28, 2024

    Letter: Freedom from fear is a right, too

    Sensible gun safety regulations will benefit us all and are not onerous to hunters.

  • Published
    March 28, 2024

    Letter: Like other public safety regulations, gun safety restrictions are warranted

    I write regarding the March 9 opinion piece about potential gun safety legislation that might cost Mainers their right to bear arms. It was such hyperbole. Even just one regulation, a 72-hour waiting period, is labeled as “piling on” hunters and small businesses. I think the writer is confusing who the victims are: those who […]

  • Published
    March 28, 2024

    Letter: Trump has no ‘heart to help’

    William Penn wrote: Only those can criticize who also have a heart to help. The rest is cruelty, not justice. What an apt description of the public persona of Donald Trump. Trump’s rhetoric is a constant stream of self-pitying complaints, self-aggrandizing fantasies and caustic critiques of anyone who does not demonstrate total loyalty to him. […]

  • Published
    March 28, 2024

    Letter: Art, not architecture, is the critical issue in Free Street building’s future

    This is in response to the March 22 opinion piece, “Whose history are we preserving at Free Street building?” I believe “we” are prevailing in protecting the City of Portland’s rich history, and yes that includes John Calvin Stevens, who seemed to be dismissed so casually in the piece. In fact, the writer seems to […]

  • Published
    March 27, 2024

    Letter: We need all hands on deck to tackle climate crisis

    Individuals and the state are doing what we can, but we must have federal resources, programs and laws to meet these challenges.

  • Published
    March 27, 2024

    Letter: Affordable housing options will improve Cumberland

    The need for affordable housing is not going away.