Letters
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PublishedJune 20, 2018
Letter to the editor: Send groceries home with schoolchildren to fight childhood hunger
Childhood Food Solutions has followed with interest Maine’s progress on ending childhood hunger. We now believe we are ready to provide some insights. We base everything on the school year as viewed by a food-insecure child. Hunger mostly occurs on the annual 185 non-school days. Starting 12 years ago, we identified the gaps in government […]
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PublishedJune 20, 2018
Letter to the editor: Another Maine community embraces carbon fee and dividend to mitigate climate change
On May 22, the island community of Vinalhaven endorsed carbon fee and dividend as a major measure to mitigate climate change. The islanders have seen that shifts in climate are already bringing higher sea levels to the island’s low-lying main street and intensifying storms demanding larger culverts. Vinalhaven’s Board of Selectmen thus joins the city […]
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PublishedJune 20, 2018
Letter to the editor: ‘Buddy system’ might have prevented tragic swimming death
Why doesn’t the Lewiston school department (all school departments, for that matter) adopt a “buddy system” for all field trips? When I went to Girl Scout camp at Camp Natarswi in Millinocket, back in the 1940s, we were required to choose a “buddy” whenever there was a free group swim. The rule was that you […]
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PublishedJune 19, 2018
Letter to the editor: Former DHHS chief Mayhew deserved rejection in Republican primary
If you found yourself feeling schadenfreude at the abysmally poor showing of Mary Mayhew in the Republican gubernatorial primary, you’re not alone. Mayhew, unlike her opponents, has a mark forever attached to her that cannot, nor should not, ever be erased. That mark has two names: Kendall Chick and Marissa Kennedy. Two little girls tortured […]
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PublishedJune 19, 2018
Letter to the editor: Education about mental health issues should be required in schools
My name is Della Huntley, and I’m a ninth-grader at Baxter Academy. In my years as a teenager, a constant, overarching problem has been mental illnesses. From within my friend group to television shows like “13 Reasons Why,” it is an issue that is impossible to ignore. That is why I decided to focus on […]
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PublishedJune 19, 2018
Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins must do more to end heinous separation-at-border policy
And President Trump is wrong to say the law requires family separations and the criminal prosecution of immigrants.
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PublishedJune 19, 2018
Letter to the editor: Separation of immigrant families would appall devoted American father
As I write this on Father’s Day, I cannot help but think of the over 2,000 children who are currently separated from their parents because of the Trump administration policy on immigration. If my father were alive, he would be appalled at this practice. My father was an amazing person and lived his life for […]
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PublishedJune 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Clammers’ real enemy? Climate change, not green crabs
We must recognize this and work together to mitigate it.
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PublishedJune 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Grocery stores need to give edible unsold food to charity
I am a junior at Camden Hills Regional High School, and this past semester I have been working on a cumulative project for my Advanced Placement Capstone class. For this project I have been focusing on food waste in the United States. I was shocked to learn that the U.S. wastes roughly 40 percent of […]
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PublishedJune 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: ‘Affordable’ shouldn’t mean taller Munjoy Hill housing
People have financial, emotional and family interests on Munjoy Hill. It’s become one of the attractive sectors of Portland, yet not too prim and pretty, thank goodness. It feels real, and it has a certain neighborhood attractiveness. Addressing the anguish of the demolition moratorium, and the teardowns and out-of-context structures that led up to it, […]
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