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  • Published
    June 9, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Comedian’s gruesome stunt has no place in a civil world

    A couple of years ago, my husband and I had the honor of meeting the parents of slain American journalist James Foley in Biddeford Pool. The pain they endured was indescribable. Can you imagine what thoughts went through their minds after the posting by Kathy Griffin of a video depicting her holding a likeness of […]

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    June 9, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Scarborough schools excel, but tax increase is too high

    Scarborough residents are justifiably proud of our school system. Only recently we learned that U.S. News and World Report ranked Scarborough High School as the sixth best in the state. We also are fortunate to have Julie Kukenberger as the new superintendent. She has already demonstrated outstanding leadership and a willingness to bring the schools […]

  • Published
    June 9, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Burden of 3% tax surcharge not as sizable as it looks

    Arguments in the Legislature and media over implementation of the referendum-passed 3 percent income tax surcharge have been dominated by the potential impact of the surcharge on people making over $200,000 a year: Will they leave, or won’t they? So far, I haven’t heard much discussion in terms of the relative impact on these high […]

  • Published
    June 8, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Fifty years ago, the Israelis bravely defended their homeland

    The Six Day War of 1967, between the Arab nations and the tiny state of Israel, took place 50 years ago this week. For Israel, it was a war of national survival. Barely 20 years after the Holocaust and World War II, during which 6 million defenseless Jewish women, men, children and babies were brutally […]

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    June 8, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Look in your own backyard before labeling Maine ‘a mess’

    After reading the June 3 letter from Madonna Laws-Lowell of St. Louis, whose husband refused to vacation in Maine because “they have that crazy governor now. Maine’s a mess,” I immediately headed to the internet. There were 16 murders last year in Maine, compared with 188 in St. Louis, giving it the highest murder rate […]

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  • Published
    June 8, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Trump living in Pittsburgh’s long-gone past as a steel town

    President Trump claims to be a president for Pittsburgh, not Paris. I’m a native of Pittsburgh. I don’t know in what decade Mr. Trump is living when he defends his decision to back out of the Paris climate accords by his disingenuous suggestion that he is acting on behalf of Pittsburgh. Really? When the steel […]

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    June 8, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Ranked-choice voting is not that complex, so defend new law

    I am writing to defend the new ranked-choice voting law currently being threatened by opponents in the Legislature, and to clarify the false perception that it’s too confusing to understand. I have full confidence that Maine voters understood the pros and cons of the legislation. Yet, it turns out, one doesn’t even need to graduate […]

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    June 8, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Wow, cruise ships are so big they really do make a splash

    Re: “Cruising toward a record: ‘This will be our biggest season’ ” (Page A1, June 2): Let’s put the size of big cruise ships in perspective: • Anthem of the Sea, the largest to visit Portland to date: 1,142 feet and 169,000 tons. • The Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier (the […]

  • Published
    June 7, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Bree LaCasse will do more for schools on city council

    As the mother of a first-grader at Longfellow Elementary School, I know how desperately our school needs to be renovated. And that’s one of many reasons why I’m supporting Bree LaCasse for an at-large seat on the City Council over incumbent Jill Duson. Longfellow is so overcrowded that hallways are regularly used for instruction, which […]

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    June 7, 2017

    Letter to the editor: Reducing goals for vehicle fuel efficiency will cost jobs

    A new report was recently published by labor and environmental leaders, and it found that building clean vehicle technology directly supports 288,000 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the U.S. These jobs belong to more than 1,200 factories and engineering facilities in a total of 48 states, where American workers help create new technology that improves […]