Letters

Published
May 7, 2018

Letter to the editor: Canada’s single-payer system works

If you want everyone to have access to good medical care, move away from the current profit-based system.
Published
May 7, 2018

Letter to the editor: SNAP recipients don’t need new job training program

The author of the recent “Maine Voices: Let them eat cake: one of many reasons to care about the Farm Bill” (April 30) told many truths – about the incredible level of food insecurity in Maine, about the lack of access to healthy food for those living and working in poverty, and about the gaping […]
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May 7, 2018

Letter to the editor: Funding for public schools fails to mirror U.S. prosperity

I have worked in the Portland Public Schools for nine years. Nearly every year, my school has faced a shortfall in funding from the city and state, and has had to cut teaching and support positions. This year, the City Council is considering a budget that would raise property taxes for city services by less […]
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May 7, 2018

Letter to the editor: Group wasting city’s time  on selfish, subjective issues

Gone are the days when people would challenge government. Now, 1 percent of the people run to government to solve nearly anything. Look at what happened to Congress Square or lower Bayside. Take the latest Munjoy Hill controversy: “Historical” or “hysterical”? I say, “hysterical,” and about 1 percent of the population caused the panic. Here […]
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May 7, 2018

Letter to the editor: Mark Eves deserves to win Democratic primary June 12

Having been involved in supporting good candidates for public office whom I believe can make a difference, I believe Mark Eves is poised to be that person who will make a difference when he becomes our next governor of Maine. How refreshing that will be! I have known Mark, his family and his parents for […]

Published
May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: King had role in pushing for nuclear deal with Iran

When the nuclear deal with Iran was brought forward in August 2015, Sen. Angus King called a snap meeting in Portland to push it (although not for constitutionally required Senate ratification). The University of Southern Maine forum included only supporters of the agreement on the stage, and it effectively drove public opinion in the direction […]
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May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: Hyde Amendment hurts poor women especially

In response to Walter J. Eno’s discounting of Mindy Woerter’s criticism of the Hyde Amendment (Another View, April 29): He seems to ignore one point she makes in her op-ed relating her own painful experience: For poor women, unlike her, the Hyde Amendment is especially cruel because they do not have the same financial resources […]
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May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: It’s time for Maine to end term limits

Maine people already have a guaranteed, constitutional mechanism to keep control of their elected representatives: regular, biennial elections.
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May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: Newspapers waste energy in demonizing Poliquin

Editorial cartoonist Steve Meyers’ attempt to vilify U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (April 29) was deplorable, vicious and divisive. I am amazed at the wasted energy expended by your news organization to demonize Mr. Poliquin. Do you not understand that not only is he not in your readership’s district, but also that 99 percent of his […]
Published
May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: Paper should stick to news, leave out ‘splash factor’

I am beginning to be dismayed by the sensational turn that the paper seems to be taking, most recently the coverage of the apprehension of John D. Williams, suspected of fatally shooting Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Eugene Cole, in the April 29 Maine Sunday Telegram. While I understand that this is an important story, […]

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