Letters

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August 19, 2017

Letter to the editor: Trump supporter uses pretzel logic

Re: “Letter to the editor: Trump is unjustly damned if he does or doesn’t” (Aug. 16): President Trump is guilty as sin of being a racist and a bigot, among other things not fit to print. Furthermore, the hypocrisy of the letter writer, Andy Page of Biddeford Pool, who immediately vilifies the “left” before complaining […]
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August 19, 2017

Letter to the editor: The best course of action is to just ignore the skinheads

In Carol Selsberg’s Aug. 15 letter to the editor, “Stand up against America’s enemy: Hate,” it seems she blames a lot of what recently happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Donald Trump. He said right from the start that there was wrongdoing on both sides. He was correct. All the hate groups are wrong, but they […]
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August 19, 2017

Letter to the editor: Backing Civil War statues is bad revisionist history

It is disheartening (but not surprising) to hear our governor take the position that removing Confederate statues is an injustice to our cultural and historical identity. As has been reported exhaustively over the past few weeks, the erection of statues across the country honoring the Confederacy – mostly in the extreme South – was not […]
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August 19, 2017

Letter to the editor: Budding bigots thriving under Trump presidency

You know how, after rain or a lot of damp weather, you suddenly find peculiar mushrooms in your yard or basement? You think, “Where did these come from?” That’s not unlike what Donald Trump has cultivated here in America. Yes, the spores (budding bigots) were always there. But the rain or dampness (Trump) has created […]
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August 19, 2017

Letter to the editor: U.S. at a fork in the road and now on the wrong road

I recently visited Toronto. While there, I witnessed a society working toward acceptance of everyone. Our country is at a fork in the road, and we have started down the wrong road. While in Ontario, I viewed an ad on TV for the province’s 150th anniversary and thought to myself, “Not so long ago I […]

Published
August 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: ‘Cap and trade’ Boston rally haters with pledges to anti-white supremacist group

Boston has long been a beloved destination for Mainers of all colors, creeds and loves. Many of us treasure it as much as we do our own home. That’s why, as white supremacists gather on Boston Common this Saturday, Mainers for Accountable Leadership is on a mission to “cap and trade” the haters with compassion […]
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August 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Almanac forecasts seem to miss more than they hit

“Almanac: Plenty of snow, cold for Northeast” said the headline on Page B4 of the Press Herald’s Aug. 14 edition, although, in the accompanying Associated Press article, editors of the Farmers’ Almanac are quick to admit that forecasting is an “inexact science.” I guess that would explain their failure to predict last year’s drought in […]
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August 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Canadian reports of border harassment hurting Maine

Officials in Maine are working to save a program that creates jobs in economically challenged rural areas bordering Canada (“Border grants announced with program’s future in doubt,” Page B5, Aug. 11). We recently learned about another threat to Maine’s economy: a widespread belief among Canadians that they are not welcome in the U.S. We are […]
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August 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Refusing to disavow Nazis should be Trump’s undoing

After the Hitler years and the Holocaust, are we really in a place where a U.S. president refuses to condemn Nazi slogans? Neo-Nazis marching and chanting their anti-Semitic filth don’t bother Donald Trump? Trump has to go, and Republican leaders should head up that effort. Enough is enough. Joseph Hachey Gorham
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August 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: The moral arc of history must be bent to prevent future Charlottesvilles

I’m not totally sure what to say about Charlottesville. Today, I’m sad and tomorrow I probably will be, too. In 50 years, I hope we look back at this as the loud finale to an evil way of thinking and being. I hope we realize that the moment we decided to join Facebook or use […]

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