Letters

Published
March 3, 2017

Letter to the editor: True statesmen are devoted to constituents, not their careers

Statesmanship has nothing to do with the perpetual running for office that has overcome members of Congress and other elected officials. It has to do with furnishing support for the goals of the American people who elected the budding statesmen, and spending time on bringing those goals to fruition, regardless of how the effort affects […]
Published
March 2, 2017

Letter to the editor: Town hall meetings are now a must for members of Congress

And so the first congressional break came to a close and not one of Maine’s federal representatives held a town hall meeting for their constituents. Calls last Friday to the local offices of Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins and Reps. Bruce Poliquin and Chellie Pingree yielded no substantive or reasoned excuse for this – […]
Published
March 2, 2017

Letter to the editor: Health care challenges not helped by incomplete news

The article shared by Courier Publications in your Feb. 22 edition, “Pen Bay doctors question single-board plan” (Page B4), was incomplete. Reporter Stephen Betts on Feb. 20 contacted our organization seeking comment. We provided a response that was used in the Courier Gazette, but not the Press Herald. The statement I made to Betts read […]
Published
March 2, 2017

Letter to the editor: Expand police options for more nonlethal solutions

The debate over body cameras seems to be missing a larger point: These cameras might very well give valuable information on what happened, though this is cold comfort to the victims and their families. I am wondering why the discussion isn’t more about nonlethal solutions, like pepper spray, bear spray, beanbag guns, Tasers – even […]
Published
March 2, 2017

Letter to the editor: Courtesy and civility  need to return to politics

Upon recently listening to a speech given by Marco Rubio on the Senate floor Feb. 7, I was inspired to put down some of my own thoughts in words. This speech addresses the need for civility in politics and is a “must listen to” for every American. My thoughts are nonpartisan and written in the […]

Published
March 1, 2017

Letter to the editor: Article on young Portland snow shovelers brings back fond memories

Bravo to the “Boys on the Hill” (“Windfall from snowfall,” Page A1, Feb. 20). My brother and I went door to door, in the mid-1950s, to shovel after snowstorms in Worcester, Massachusetts. Surprisingly, the pay – even in those days – would buy a movie ticket or two. The story brought back fond memories. Judith […]
Published
March 1, 2017

Letter to the editor: Task force needed in Maine to prevent trauma of high-conflict divorce

The recent killing of an Acton father makes it imperative that Maine’s attorney general and the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar form a task force to address the psychological and emotional travesty of our time: the high-conflict divorce of parents of minor-aged children. I call upon the legal community to come clean about […]
Published
March 1, 2017

Letter to the editor: Banning some media from White House press briefing is appalling

I am appalled, angry and frightened at the recent banning of several news outlets from a White House press briefing. Any municipal, state or federal representative who chooses to speak publicly must allow access to all press representatives. Individuals may choose where to obtain information, any media or (im)partiality. Limiting those choices by any form […]
Published
March 1, 2017

Letter to the editor: Internet, social media harm sexual development of teens

The Feb. 16 Maine Voices column about teen dating violence disappoints in its absence of any reference to the most extreme change in the lives of our children: 24/7 access to screen technology, internet and social media. I taught high school for almost 30 years, and the last few saw a stark rise in kids […]
Published
March 1, 2017

Letter to the editor: Support effort to expand testing of water in Maine schools

When dangerous levels of chemicals, in a release of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine, turned Colorado’s Animas River a vivid saffron color, the event galvanized public awareness about similar “toxic time bombs” within thousands of abandoned mines throughout the country. By contrast, countless other insidious chronic exposures to toxins in our environment attract little […]

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