Letters

Published
March 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: Republicans’ actions on health care immoral, unethical

The proposed introduction of “Trumpcare” replacing the Affordable Care Act is not about health reform at all. Rather, it is a device to achieve wealth redistribution, robbing the poor and middle class and further enriching those already over-rich by providing some $300 billion in tax revisions. Millions of people, those least able to afford health […]
Published
March 14, 2017

Letter to the editor: Two proposals would resolve fight over carbon emissions

Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, faces significant opposition from within his own party for disputing well-founded climate science, as reported in the March 9 Press Herald. Pruitt said that carbon dioxide is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” He also objected to government regulations without congressional review and to […]
Published
March 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Dense application process harms the already disabled

Nov. 18 – the day my life would change. I awoke and was short one foot. The infection in my foot had turned into the flesh-eating disease. Uncontrolled diabetes fueled this. After the operation, they sent me to a rehab hospital for two weeks. Sent home, I was confined to bed for three months with […]
Published
March 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: LePage seems determined to ruin state parks system

Streamlining a bureaucracy is always desirable. Destroying it is not. Unfortunately, our current governor appears to be slowly but increasingly working to dismantle our wondrous state park system. The state parks are what lured us to Maine for retirement 20 years ago, and they have remained an important force in our lives. Magnificently diverse and […]
Published
March 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Tourney attendance problem – it’s complicated

A photo in the March 7 Portland Press Herald sports section was misleading, and the accompanying article (“Format impacts attendance,” Page D1) lacked information. The story neglected to mention that Class AA tournament games were played in Augusta because the Cross Insurance Arena double booked the weekend of March 4 and 5 and told the […]

Published
March 13, 2017

Letter to the editor: Those on fixed incomes cannot afford more taxes

I am a 69-year-old registered nurse who has been unemployed since March 7, 2007. I spent $59,000 on a bachelor of science in nursing degree from a small college in Kankakee, Illinois. I get $957 in Social Security and pay $460 in rent. I’m voting “no” to the new grade school in Brunswick, as I […]
Published
March 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Nemitz often right, but he’s wrong about Susan Collins

Though I nearly always agree with Bill Nemitz’s views and have high regard for him as a journalist and human being, I must take strong exception to his Feb. 12 defense of Susan Collins’ recent actions in the Senate. Collins’ vote for and strong approval of the racist homophobe Jeff Sessions should have been reason […]
Published
March 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Concern is less nominees than man choosing them

Sen. Angus King has asked for constituent input about the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Here’s mine: King and everyone else in the Senate should insist that there are fundamental questions to be answered to determine whether the president has legitimacy to make appointments before the appointments are considered. They should insist […]
Published
March 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Government should protect its transgender citizens

In August 2013, after surviving a cancer diagnosis, I finally found the courage to stand up and be who I really am. I am a Christian, and I am transgender. I was elated until I got home and a neighbor who’d been kind to me began to harass me. I moved. The bathroom bills had […]
Published
March 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: History of Italian immigrants in verse

I enjoyed Cyndi Amato’s Maine Voices column (Feb. 12). One of the writers who cleverly welcomed the Italian immigrants in the early 1900s was T.A. Daly (1871-1948). The late 1800s and the early 1900s was a period of substantial Italian immigration. The Irish, because of the famine, had generally preceded the Italians, and had secured […]

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