Letters

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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Freeport committee is running on the right track

I recently attended two meetings of the Freeport High School Track and Field Design Committee. This committee was established soon after the voters of Regional School Unit 5 approved the track and field and lighting referendum questions. I went to the first meeting with quite a bit of skepticism. However, I was quickly impressed with […]
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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Bond patience might be a virtue

Mayor Ethan Strimling makes specious arguments in his March 16 op-ed advocating the four-schools-now bond. Let’s look at some of his points: • It’s “wishful thinking” that the state will fund Reiche and Longfellow renovations: Reiche and Longfellow just missed being picked the last time the state decided who got funded. If the rankings change little […]
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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Investment will help kids, neighborhoods

As a former mayor of Portland and co-chair of the City Council’s Middle School Building Committee – and a longtime advocate for Portland’s schools – I strongly encourage the current City Council to support a $64 million education bond to locally fund the rebuilding of our four oldest elementary schools: Lyseth, Longfellow, Presumpscot and Reiche. […]
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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Vote for BLM rules is a vote for the environment

As a nurse practitioner, I am writing to publicly thank U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, who this week said they could not support the Congressional Review Act, which would be used to block rules issued by the federal Bureau of Land Management. Their vote would help to protect the health of children and […]
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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: Due diligence has long since been finished

After 23 years of delays and inaction, Councilor Jill Duson is calling for what a headline writer described as a “go-slow approach” to repairing our crumbling elementary schools (Commentary, March 16). Go slow? The city’s had seven official task forces on elementary school facilities since 1995 and hired architectural firms six different times. How much […]

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March 18, 2017

Letter to the editor: It’s past time to stop printing other people’s lies

A question: Knowing that many people read only the headlines or the first few paragraphs of a news story, why would you print two stories on the front page March 15 – “LePage says Obama used Riverview ‘to poke us in the eye’ ” and “Services thin? Governor says opioid care is available, free” – […]
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March 17, 2017

Letter to the editor: A new highway could take some pressure off Route 1

What do you think about letting the Maine Turnpike Authority build a controlled-access dual highway from about Bowdoinham on Interstate 295 to the Penobscot Narrows Bridge? Make it a toll road, E-ZPass preferred. It would be less than 75 miles, relieve traffic on Route 1 and make Washington County much more accessible. I think it’s […]
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March 17, 2017

Letter to the editor: ‘One Morning in Maine’ author’s family are a gift themselves

Robert McCloskey’s family gift to the Nature Conservancy of the island on which his “One Morning in Maine” was set is a gift to all Mainers. I doubt that any state has as glorious a heritage of children’s literature as Maine. When I think of our state, I think not of the governor who would […]
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March 17, 2017

Letter to the editor: Evidence on Russia-Trump demands an investigation

Unlike columnist Charles Krauthammer (March 10), I don’t know of a more serious issue than to what extent has Russia managed to surreptitiously shift American policy toward Russia. Russia has just deployed nuclear missiles in Europe, targeting NATO, in clear violation of the treaties with the U.S. and NATO. The administration hasn’t responded in any […]
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March 17, 2017

Letter to the editor: Abnormal administration demands stricter vetting

In communications that Sen. Angus King has sent me, he spoke of “support(ing) a president’s broad ability to appoint heads of agencies as they see fit,” based on his experience as a former executive. This is essentially trying to make the best of a bad situation. While that is not an unreasonable approach in normal […]

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