Letters

Published
July 28, 2017

Letter to the editor: Column was wrong about impetus for Portland school bond

Re: “Maine Voices: Do we need to rebuild four schools? This crucial issue deserves closer look” (July 20): The assertion that Portland’s four-school renovation bond is an issue brought forth and paid for by Progressive Portland is ludicrous and an insult to the parents, educators and school board members who have been working on this […]
Published
July 27, 2017

Letter to the editor: Thank Pingree, Poliquin for climate change votes

It is appropriate to give credit where credit is due. The House recently voted on the Defense Department authorization bill, which acknowledges climate change as a “direct threat” to our national security and provides for serious study of the impact of climate change on the military over the next 20 years. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., […]
Published
July 27, 2017

Letter to the editor: Tenant death challenges Portland to try even harder

Portland has implemented a program to address living conditions in rental housing that requires registration of rental units, inspections for compliance with health and safety codes and enforcement action in problem cases. The vast majority of Portland landlords are providing safe rental housing. In the case of the property at 31 East Oxford St., having […]
Published
July 27, 2017

Letter to the editor: Portland mayor, manager have separate missions

I hope this doesn’t come as too much of a shock, but surprise – there is no working relationship between Portland’s mayor and Portland’s city manager. They are two separate entities, with separate missions and job descriptions. Any attempt to dovetail their duties or responsibilities would be fallacious. The city manager runs the city, period. […]
Published
July 27, 2017

Letter to the editor: Ranked-choice voting needed for governor’s race

I am among the many Mainers looking forward to the benefits of ranked-choice voting for primary and federal elections in 2018. Our representatives in Augusta should move now to amend the Maine Constitution to ensure the legality of ranked-choice voting for general elections for governor, Maine House and Maine Senate. Did you know that our […]

Published
July 27, 2017

Letter to the editor: Electing game-show host shows gullibility to scams

A study done last year by Consumer Reports revealed that despite heroic efforts to educate people, those telephone scammers many of us hear from daily are still stunningly successful – to the tune of fleecing one in 10 Americans for over $7 billion total in 2015. It’s almost unbelievable to think that after so many […]
Published
July 26, 2017

Letter to the editor: Washington needs leaders willing to cut Pentagon spending

A recent letter to the editor by Grace Braley (July 1) points out that the Pentagon is wasting billions on F-35 fighters that don’t work, bases that we don’t need and nuclear weapons that we can’t use. This sort of spending doesn’t help our security, but the defense industry argues that our jobs depend on […]
Published
July 26, 2017

Letter to the editor: Redistricting won’t address issues at Portland’s elementary schools

Shoshana Hoose’s July 20 Maine Voices narrative on the Portland school bond is skilled but slanted. “At the center of the debate” is not so much Progressive Portland, but the parents, who for 20 years have heard the same lame promise about letting the schools get so rundown that the state will step in and […]
Published
July 26, 2017

Letter to the editor: Huge thanks to the brave who got shaved, from sibling who has seen pain of cancer

With all my heart, I want to thank the police officers, emergency workers and their family members who participated in “Brave the Shave” in Westbrook to raise money for childhood cancer research. I lost my younger brother to cancer in 1969. He spent most of his last year and a half in the hospital; time […]
Published
July 26, 2017

Letter to the editor: Rep. Hamann’s belligerent rant humiliates Maine Democrats

Even though I am not a Republican, I still am disturbed by the snarky poison being spewed by so many left-leaning Democrats. South Portland Rep. Scott Hamann’s recent sanctimonious and belligerent diatribe against President Trump provides an extreme example. On July 12, Hamann wrote a nasty rant on Facebook about our president. Among other things, […]

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