Letters
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PublishedAugust 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: Oakland child’s death should prompt discussion of firearm risks
Re: the July 24 PPH story on police investigating the death of an 8-year-old Oakland boy: It seems ironic that, in light of recent local children’s deaths that have stimulated outrage and prosecutions of caregivers, that the recent death of a child with a firearm brings a statement that “no charges will be filed.” A […]
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Don’t trust lying, partisan Kavanaugh
Urge Sen. Collins to vote in the name of civil rights and judicial restraint.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Collins, King should do their jobs, oppose nominee
The people of Maine and I are becoming weary of having to inundate Sens. Collins and King with texts and faxes and phone calls just for them to do their jobs. We are in a very dark place in American history and I expected more pushback from my senators. We must not push the court […]
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Our behavior won’t change, so let’s not pretend it will
Len Frenkel of South Portland paints a dire picture of our future (“As warming threatens planet, humans will have to make sacrifices,” July 31). According to him, we can either fly or not, buy unnecessary things or not, have a second home or not, have another child or not, and so on. He concludes: “If […]
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: To win House, Democrats must stay just left of center
For the Democrats to use Democratic socialism as a strategy to defeat President Trump and his “Do-It-Alone” nationalism by tweet is a political folly. It is as foolish as the PPH’s July 30 political cartoon on page 4. Democratic socialism strolls much too close to the extreme left, just as Trump is teasing us to […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2018
Letter to the editor: Understaffed DHHS leaves kids in peril
How remiss the state is under Gov. LePage.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2018
Letter to the editor: State’s frugality proves costly to safety, health
As Gov. LePage and many in his party begin to congratulate themselves on finishing the year “in the black,” may I remind them of some unfortunate consequences of their frugality? Let’s start with two dead children left vulnerable by an ineptly managed and underfunded Department of Health and Human Services; 20 percent of Maine school […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2018
Letter to the editor: Loaded gun, young children makes tragedy inevitable
On July 25, you quoted a neighbor of the bereaved family in Oakland who had lost their child to an accidental discharge of a shotgun. The neighbor said ‘it’s really sad – you don’t expect stuff like that to happen.” With every sympathy for the family who has lost their child, I can only say: […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2018
Letter to the editor: Ironic how politicians don’t make sacrifices expected of us
Why is it that a congressman or congresswoman can vote to send soldiers to war and tell them, the soldiers, that they must put their country first before their personal safety, before their family’s well being, and perhaps even sacrifice his life. But when you ask that same politician why they won’t put their country […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2018
Letter to the editor: Dysfunctional D.C. needs overhaul come November
I would be happier if I could focus most of my attention on summer activities. However, I can’t stop being aware that D.C. is like a child’s room that hasn’t been picked up for months. Puerto Rico remains a hurricane disaster a year later. Hundreds of immigrant children callously separated from their families have yet […]
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