Letters

Published
May 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: Brown’s bid comes at a perfect time for Ogunquit

I’m writing in support of Madeline Mooney Brown for the Ogunquit Selectboard. Her candidacy comes at a perfect time. Ogunquit is in the midst of a nationwide search for a new town manager, and a new face on the Selectboard helps in the effort of the town to make a fresh start. Ogunquit demonstrated its […]
Published
May 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: LePage has shown he can behave for brief periods

The front-page Maine Sunday Telegram story “Restrained governor stokes speculation” (May 7) makes the case that Gov. LePage’s public behavior has improved for a few months and asks whether he is seeking a D.C. job, preparing for an election, or just burnishing his legacy. The excellent article missed one additional piece of evidence. LePage was […]
Published
May 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: Concerns about assisted suicide seem misplaced

Having read letters from some of your readers, who are opposed to assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who desperately want to end their suffering, I believe their concerns are misplaced. It is far more worrisome for me to know that insurance companies are not covering testing for possible early diagnoses because, though a person […]
Published
May 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: Just banning open pit mining is not sufficient

I am among many of Maine’s citizens who feel betrayed by the Natural Resources Council of Maine and other environmental groups that have rallied around a mining bill, L.D. 820, which allows the pollution of groundwater, inevitably leading to pollution of surface water. What L.D. 820 does allow is shaft mining with monitoring wells 100′ […]
Published
May 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Don’t ramp up foreign policy that’s based on endless war

The ranking U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., recently termed the military situation there to be a “stalemate.” The bottom line is the usual: We need more able bodies, more weapons, more resources. Fifteen years and counting, the longest war in our nation’s history continues to turn in circles from […]

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May 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Science shows pesticides are effectively regulated

It has long been the contention of those of us in the business of applying pesticides professionally that those who oppose what we do base their arguments on misleading claims and emotion. The news article and letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Press Herald on the subject of L.D. 1505 (“An Act To Create Consistency […]
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May 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Plan to remove Portland city employee troubling

The hastily arranged plan by City Councilor Belinda Ray to remove a city employee from his post is head-spinning to me. In a city where the elected mayor lacks even a budget for office supplies, is allowing him a single assistant such a threat to our city budget? That role serves as resource to both […]
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May 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: May’s the month to become savvy about Lyme disease

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is caused by the bite of an infected deer tick. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and the Public Health Education Corps at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention wants to remind you of the importance of daily tick checks and other prevention methods. Lyme disease […]
Published
May 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Liberal’s views on reducing immigration unfairly maligned

Jonette Christian’s sensible, reasoned Maine Voices column on immigration (“There are common-sense, fact-based ways to fix immigration in U.S.,” April 21) was, unfortunately, greeted with an unfair, scurrilous response by a reader (“Letter to the editor: Guest columnist insidiously advocates ethnic cleansing,” April 27). The letter writer, Grayson Lookner, makes the absurd comment that Christian […]
Published
May 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Self-interest may be motive of Monhegan wind-power project foes

I see that the May 6 Another View guest editorial opposing the planned Maine Aqua Ventus wind project was written by Andrew Fenniman, a resident of Chamberlain. Most likely, many of his 125-plus fellow Friends of Muscongus Bay also have cottages overlooking Monhegan Island. They say they are concerned about much more than just their […]

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