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PublishedMay 6, 2019
Letter to the editor: Mueller report more than ‘unflattering portrayal’
It is time for Sen. Susan Collins to retire. She pledged to serve only two terms, in order to make a contribution and then come home to let someone else take her place. She broke that promise and many Mainers, including me, believe she has broken another pledge: to be an advocate for her constituents. […]
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
Signings, etc.
Author Lucille Stott will present her new book, “Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods.” The book chronicles the efforts of the many people who worked tirelessly for many years to keep Henry David Thoreau’s birth house from being lost to history. WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5 WHERE: […]
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
Letter to the editor: Glossing over of harms to Native Americans just part of U.S. revisionism
So, now it’s official: Columbus Day will, in Maine anyway, be called Indigenous Peoples Day? Too bad the rest of the country couldn’t do that – but that’s Washington, D.C,. for you. Of course, they won’t do that – and to Mainers, I say, “It’s too little, too late. Same as giving Vietnam veterans some […]
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
Letter to the editor: Post-9/11 wars have benefited only dictators, corporations
The notion that America can save itself by giving up its role in governing the world was based on the premise that dictators and industry would not then fill that void. Well, we are about 20 years into an experiment in this philosophy and things are going terribly. In 2016, Boston University political scientist Neta […]
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
Letter to the editor: Vaccine, ‘red flag’ bills show government’s appetite for power
It seems our liberties slip away more every year. This spring, there are two alarming bills in the Maine Legislature. The first is the “red flag” bill (L.D. 1312), which gives government unprecedented power to confiscate a person’s firearms before they are proven guilty of any crime. In the U.S., we have the due process […]
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
Letter to the editor: Don’t follow Trump off the cliff – fight global warming
According to Donald Trump, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” While our president may enjoy passing the blame off onto other countries, we as Americans cannot afford to continue living with this mindset. I am here to tell you that global warming […]
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PublishedMay 4, 2019
Letter to the editor: Neighbor of proposed CMP line sees many benefits to project
My family owns a camp in the West Forks. It would be within a thousand feet of the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which would bring hydropower from Quebec to Lewiston. You’d think being so close to the line, I’d be against the project. You’d be wrong. I have worked on projects […]
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PublishedMay 4, 2019
Letter to the editor: Multipronged approach needed to mitigate climate change
Hydrocarbon corporations are not making a bootleg turn from that profit source. No change of heart has occurred there, and this is clear to all of us. Carbon pricing could work, but it is flawed, politically. An April 12 New York Times Magazine article by David Leonhardt, “The problem with putting a price on the […]
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PublishedMay 2, 2019
Letter to the editor: Take a lesson from history – Trump will never change
Donald Trump’s protestations of innocence remind me of a family story. Thirty-six years ago, my Uncle Dan was invited to play golf with Trump and some young real estate executives. Halfway through the game some of the executives called Trump out for cheating. Trump went ballistic and before long was accusing them of cheating. Ancient […]
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PublishedMay 2, 2019
Letter to the editor: Meet our treasured war heroes while there’s still time
Robert Graham, 97, of Yorktown, New York, was a Marine hero who fought for our freedom during World War II. Bob made the news because he had outlived all of his family members, and might have been buried without anyone attending if not for a young friend. His friend ensured that hundreds attended his funeral […]
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