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  • Published
    July 19, 2020

    Letter to the editor: Collins’ abandonment of Arctic Refuge overshadows recent conservation vote

    Last month, Sen. Susan Collins helped pass the Great American Outdoors Act, a significant, although rare, piece of pro-environmental legislation in the Age of Trump. The bill includes permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Act and directs money to address the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog. Sen. Collins is rightly touting that good […]

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    July 19, 2020

    Letter to the editor: The life-saving impulse is not a partisan one

    The ‘human chain’ rescue near Nubble Light that was the subject of a recent Bill Nemitz column shows what can be achieved when the focus is on helping one another.

  • Published
    July 18, 2020

    Letter to the Editor: Supreme Court birth control decision threatens access

    Medical decisions should be made between patients and their doctors. Employers should have nothing to do with it. Yet, a July 8 Supreme Court ruling has allowed employers to push their own religious agenda in the workplace by denying employees coverage for birth control. Now, more than 75,000 people are at risk of losing access […]

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    July 18, 2020

    Letter to the Editor: Gideon would protect women’s health services

    When I was in high school, I used Planned Parenthood’s health care services because they were affordable. I needed birth control and they were effective, inexpensive and they made me feel comfortable. As a person with an anxiety disorder, I dread doctor’s office visits. Planned Parenthood’s health center environment and staff were welcoming and supportive […]

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    July 18, 2020

    Letter to the Editor: Pricing carbon key to climate solution

    A recent editorial in the Press Herald cogently summed up the urgent need for action to effectively deal with the climate catastrophe that is bearing down on us all. (“‘Alarm bells’ continue to ring on climate” June 25.) In this clarion call for a societal shift away from the use of fossil fuels that is […]

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    July 18, 2020
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    Letter to the Editor: Choosing to mask is choosing life for the vulnerable

    Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington institute that created widely cited projections of coronavirus-related deaths, recently warned us that nearly 180,000 more Americans will probably die between now and October unless at least 95 percent of us wear masks in public. If you choose to mask, you will be choosing life for […]

  • Published
    July 17, 2020
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    Letter to the Editor: Historical basis for saying that Yankees stink

    Washington’s NFL team is anguishing over its choice of names – one that can’t be interpreted as an ethnic slur. Which probably means the New York Yankees may face the same dilemma. The origins of “Yankee” are debated, but many say that it is from the Dutch, possibly from “Jan Kees,” meaning “John Cheese,” or […]

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    July 17, 2020

    Letter to the Editor: Grateful for good leadership in Maine

    Much gratitude to Gov. Mills and the great job that she’s doing to keep our state safe! That’s her focus; she’s not concerned about whether she will be re-elected. She is listening to the experts and making her decisions based on sound scientific practice. This is a serious worldwide pandemic. This is not a Maine […]

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    July 17, 2020

    Letter to the Editor: Women can’t depend on Collins anymore

    In August 2018, I was part of a group of people who met with Sen. Susan Collins to share our abortion stories and our fears that Brett Kavanaugh, if appointed to the Supreme Court, would decimate abortion rights in our country. Rather than listen to us, Sen. Collins dismissed our concerns, assuring us that Kavanaugh […]

  • Published
    July 15, 2020

    Letter to the editor: LePage would have bungled COVID response

    We are truly blessed to have Gov. Mills at the helm during this stressful, challenging time here in Maine! Can you imagine the mess we’d be in if Paul LePage were still governor? Just look at some of the other Republican-governed states: Arizona, Texas, Florida. It takes a strong, clear-thinking person to stand his or […]