Letters

Published
May 25, 2017

Letter to the editor: Give President Trump a chance to fight rampant corruption

Has anyone stepped back from our political lion’s den and pondered the media-driven hysteria’s adverse impact on our daily lives? I didn’t think so. As a country, the vast majority do not watch the news or read the newspaper. They either are too busy navigating their harried lives or purposely avoid the news. The latter […]
Published
May 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: Dislike of Clinton a bigger factor than racism in Trump win

Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts continues to seek racial motivations behind Donald Trump’s victory last November (“Sadly, I told you so – voter racism and bias were big factor in Trump’s victory,” May 17). I believe that Republicans cast their ballots for a much more fundamental reason: He wasn’t Hillary Clinton. There were four outcome scenarios […]
Published
May 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: Turkish thugs beat up Americans and our president lets it go

Donald Trump’s non-response to the Turkish presidential security detail’s violent attack on American citizens, on American soil, is at the top of a long, long list of appalling actions by our current president. In case you missed it, the Associated Press reported that last Thursday in Washington, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “security detail” pushed […]
Published
May 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: So many troubling opinions in a letter with four sentences

Norma Stanley’s May 18 letter was only four sentences. But, boy, did it provoke a lot of thought. • “The O’Reilly Factor” was an opinion show. Bill O’Reilly wasn’t a reporter. He’s a pundit. As to “fairness,” his opinions could be racially biased, among other things. For example: Watch that YouTube clip from 2010 where […]
Published
May 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: The powerful have no right to control bodies of others

Re: Norma Stanley’s May 18 letter, advising beautiful young women to cover up around Bill O’Reilly: We live in our bodies, as we live in our homes. Imagine living in a neighborhood with a person of power – say, the police or fire chief – who can’t resist your beautiful new home. You find this […]

Published
May 24, 2017

Letter to the editor: ‘Nips’ enable drunk driving, so ending sales could be useful

“Nips” liquor bottles are a blight on the roadside and should have a deposit attached to their sale. But doing so will cost businesses money. And Gov. LePage wants to take them off the shelf to teach someone a lesson. What seems to be lost in this whole debate is what makes nips so popular […]
Published
May 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Did Trump realize arms sales to the Saudis could backfire?

The Press Herald did a great job of selecting and presenting wire service reporting on Donald Trump’s triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia. Of course, he received a royal welcome. After all, he’s royalty of the American kind. Mr. Trump’s focus seemed to be on selling arms, all kinds of arms, to the Saudi government for […]
Published
May 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Don’t lump progressives in with awful Democratic Party

In his May 18 letter to the editor, Allan Neff describes “the political left” as supporters of Hillary Clinton. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The “left,” or progressives, were out in force for Bernie Sanders, which is probably why Hillary lost. No one who could conceivably be called a member of […]
Published
May 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Local land trusts counter bad environmental policies of Washington

It seems, every day, we hear of more rollbacks and new policies that will lead to greater pollution and degradation of our natural environment coming from Washington, D.C. To counter this somber news, I find inspiration in the fantastic work being performed right in our own Maine backyards by locally funded, member-driven nonprofit organizations. Environmental […]
Published
May 23, 2017

Letter to the editor: Forget avocado toast – many millennials barely surviving

Apparently, I am a rare bird, being a native-born Mainer and a millennial who also reads the entire newspaper every day (yes, on my smartphone!). I would like to let the baby boomers and the Greatest Generation and, maybe, even Generation X know the non-avocado-related struggles we millennial Mainers face. I have $68,000 in student […]

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