Letters

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, […]
Published
July 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: We subsidize ‘wealth care.’ Why not health care?

Those claiming that the Affordable Care Act is failing don’t typically rely on it for their health insurance and would convince us that the government cannot fund it. As small-business owners, we’ve purchased our health insurance through the ACA since inception. It’s real insurance, it’s affordable and it’s a huge improvement over our previous options […]
Published
July 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: ‘Improved Medicare for All’ would fix many problems

In her July 18 letter, businesswoman Carolyn Brodsky encourages Sen. Susan Collins to support the latest Senate health care bill: “… It’s the best chance … we’ll get to undo the damage that Obamacare has caused and make a fresh start.” I would like to suggest that an Improved Medicare for All system would address […]

Published
July 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins lacks concern for Mainers’ rising premiums

Sen. Susan Collins is adamantly against repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. She doesn’t seem to be concerned about all the Mainers on ACA exchange policies who are facing premium increases of 19, 29 and 39 percent in all three of the health carriers in our state. While she gets daily free positive press, […]
Published
July 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: Republicans simply desire to undo Obama’s legacy

Attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act have nothing to do with health care. They have everything to do with the Republican leadership dead set on erasing any legacy that a former president – who happen to be a man of color – may have accomplished while in office. Republicans in Congress had seven years […]
Published
July 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: If Trump fires Mueller, we must flood the streets

If Donald Trump moves to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, we as a nation will have come to a crisis point that threatens our entire republic. Worse, Republicans in Congress and at the Department of Justice, who have the power to protect the nation, will not act of their own accord to do so. They, […]
Published
July 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: WGME spreads pro-Trump propaganda

We need to see a story about Sinclair Broadcasting’s decision to make their local stations (nearly 200 across the country) run pro-Donald Trump propaganda “commentaries” via former Trump campaign aide Boris Epshteyn. The first one I saw on WGME shocked me beyond words. There was no rebuttal, no fact-checking or outing of cherry-picked data points. […]
Published
July 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: Botanical gardens erosion not a product of negligence

In response to a July 7 news article, we thought it important to provide the following clarifying facts: The four minor erosion control incidents at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, noted in the recent Department of Environmental Protection violation notice, occurred this past winter and spring after unusually heavy rains and subsequent to prior weekly inspections […]

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