Letters

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February 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Press should report where guns used in crimes are from

Last Tuesday’s Press Herald carried a story about a 17-year-old youth who shot a handgun into a house in Canaan, putting a family in danger. On Jan. 22, we read of an arrest in Waterville after an armed standoff during which a man holed up in an apartment with his 20-day-old infant and a loaded […]
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February 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Pipeline, climate change threaten Maine directly

For the past month, I have joined with protesters in front of TD Bank in Rockland and Camden asking TD Bank to stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North and South Dakota. I am doing this because I believe climate change is real and a threat to our economy and way of life […]
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February 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Collins’ moderate streak is marketing

You recently praised Sen. Susan Collins for her new health care bill (Our View, Jan. 29). Your praise, I propose, is premature and misguided. Sen. Collins, I’ve often observed, is skilled at making herself appear to be the moderate icon that Maine’s media, including the Press Herald, are always praising. Occasionally she actually does act […]
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February 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Religious freedom means religious freedom for all

I don’t understand how people get this religious freedom thing so wrong. We all want religious freedom. America is great because we have been willing to fight and to die not only to preserve our own religious freedom, but that our friends and neighbors preserve theirs. The single thing that a free and tolerant society […]
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February 12, 2017

Letter to the editor: Christ was pretty adamant about loving thy neighbor

As a Christian minister, I was horrified to hear of President Trump’s ban on refugees and Muslims. I wrote to him and asked him to read the story of the Good Samaritan. The Samaritan that was “good” was a foreigner and was someone who had a different religious tradition. This ban on our global neighbors […]

Published
February 11, 2017

Letter to the editor: State needs to fix minimum wage hike

Where is the discussion in Augusta about the progressive minimum-wage structure that we are now facing? I am an employer in Biddeford and start people at 40 to 45 percent above minimum with flexible hours. In this town, that’s in high demand. It’s simple assembly for which I compete nationally and internationally. I have been […]
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February 11, 2017

Letter to the editor: As battle with Trump is joined, all need to listen

My spirit has been lifted by the outpouring of people in opposition to our new president. With gratitude, these are thoughts for sharing. I’m a white, middle-class, able-bodied, heterosexual cisgender male, and these reflections are addressed primarily to those who share these identities. Pangs of threat and danger are now being felt. This isn’t new, […]
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February 11, 2017

Letter to the editor: Collins respects the rules of Senate — when it suits her

I’m writing to point out Sen. Susan Collins’ inconsistency in two recent votes. She allowed the nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education to go forward to a floor vote out of respect for the Senate and its traditions and processes, which give all senators the right to consider, speak on and be part […]
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February 11, 2017

Letter to the editor: Bearing witness to end of life remains humbling

Regarding “A matter of love and death” (Page A1, Feb. 7), about a couple who, according to relatives, committed suicide because of the wife’s terminal illness: I have been an intimate witness to many kinds of disability, suffering and death since I was a young child. One of my first jobs was as nurse’s aide […]
Published
February 10, 2017

Letter to the editor: Romanticizing couple’s suicide was wrong

Re: “For Standish couple, suicide was a loving choice, relatives say” (Feb. 7): How irresponsible it was for you to romanticize suicide in the article about Donald and Sandra Cragin! This year, my children have mourned too many peers who have died by suicide, and your article reinforces the wrong message, especially to the impressionable […]

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