Letters

Published
November 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: Hannaford well-advised to be safe-chemical only

I found the Nov. 15 article (Page B4) regarding Hannaford’s lack of a safe-chemical policy disturbing. Though supporting many social and environmental policies, they received an F grade for failing to announce basic safer-chemical policies to ensure the safety of their products and supply chain. The evaluation was done by a partnership of the Environmental […]
Published
November 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Famine by design needs to be stopped

If the blockade is not lifted hundreds of thousands could die in the coming weeks, and millions in the coming months.
Published
November 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Wisdom of income, estate tax cuts is questioned

I read, with interest, all commentaries relating to income taxes, as well all the letters and comments from your readers. The Nov. 18 editorial page had the letters from Jim Atkinson and Olin Jenner relating to income tax, and the Maine Voices column of Roger Bowen spoke of the federal estate tax and exemption. I […]
Published
November 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Turkeys, like humans, would prefer to be alive

“Turkey Season” is upon us and visions of the emblematic bird have returned home to roost. First is the cartoon dream of the turkey, a barrel-chested, sunset-feathered fellow bedecked in a Pilgrim hat. This is the turkey school kids learn to see in tracings of their splayed fingers, that great ambassador of gratitude reminding us […]
Published
November 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Many Mainers will be hurt by tax bill’s giveaway to rich

The tax reform bill passed by the House is a blatant giveaway to the rich at the expense of many middle-income taxpayers, especially here in Maine, and future generations, who will have to pay the $1.5 trillion cost. And for what? Elimination of the estate tax (which only taxes the top 2/10ths of 1 percent […]

Published
November 22, 2017

Letter to the editor: Tax reform bills in Congress fall short on child care access

They don't include enough workers and ignore the needs of those hoping to become middle-class wage earners.
Published
November 22, 2017

Letter to the editor: Land down to low-tide mark used to be part of shore properties

Regarding Steven C. Pomelow’s Nov. 17 letter in the Press Herald, about the ownership of land between high and low tides: Without doubt, the state took claim to it sometime during the past 100 years or so. However, at least through the 1850s, as attested to in a great number of transactions recorded from 1845 […]
Published
November 22, 2017

Letter to the editor: ‘Maine’ is too plain a name; replace it with ‘Norumbega’

As Maine approaches its 200th anniversary as a separate U.S. state in 2020, it’s time to bring up this issue: No other state in the union has such a nondescript, vapid, one-syllable name as “Maine.” Consider such euphonious names as “Wyoming,” “Colorado” and “Montana.” We are told that King Charles I named Maine, declaring, according […]
Published
November 22, 2017

Letter to the editor: Column opposing changes in the estate tax was flawed

Roger Bowen’s Nov. 18 Maine Voices column provides us with a readable account of how Republicans would like to increase the amount not taxed by the estate tax. Raising that amount, he argues, will increase the disparity in wealth in this country. Being born into a poor family, he says, is a curse, while being […]
Published
November 21, 2017

Letter to the editor: Trump foolish to think Putin would disclose any hacking

How naive can Donald Trump be, believing that Vladimir Putin would admit to hacking? The cogs in Mr. Putin’s brain are meshing. A picture of the two of them walking down the road together should be in the comic books. Facial expressions say a lot. Climate change and lies aside, how many years will it […]

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