Letters

Published
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 […]
Published
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 […]
Published
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.
Published
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, […]
Published
May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: Photos of suspect’s capture show lack of compassion

I’m writing in support of Irving Williams’ recent letter regarding the “capture” photos of John D. Williams (no relation), the suspect in the fatal shooting of Cpl. Eugene Cole of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. The photos I’ve seen have only made my heart hurt more for the man. (It was already hurting for the […]
Published
May 6, 2018

Letter to the editor: Photo after manhunt sends message of inhumanity

We see violent and disturbing images every day. Police-brutality videos are now commonplace on social media. We are suffering from an opioid epidemic that is destroying families. And at the perils of the current government, our very democracy is at stake. We are in deep trouble on many levels. I am writing this letter because […]
Published
May 5, 2018

Letter to the editor: You mean Portland’s development was planned?

A reader assumed it was just a free-for-all.
Published
May 5, 2018

Letter to the editor: Our president turns rule of law on its head

Opinion columnist David Leonhardt in The New York Times (“The sense of justice that we are losing,” April 30) praises post-Watergate investigations where, after that shameful time, our nation ended the Department of Justice as Richard Nixon perceived it: an agency to benefit himself and his friends and punish his enemies. Under each succeeding administration […]

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