Letters

Published
December 22, 2016

Letter to the editor: Maine Med, Spring Harbor CEOs back DHHS’ proposed psychiatric ‘step-down’ unit

Maine faces a difficult and ongoing crisis with regard to people with mental illness. This plays out daily in emergency rooms across the state, where patients with acute and difficult-to-manage mental illnesses can wait for days and sometimes weeks for a bed at a qualified facility. The state’s authorization earlier this year to open an […]
Published
December 22, 2016

Letter to the editor: Progressives urged to start now to work for a candidate

As a fellow lifelong progressive Democrat, I would like to respond to letter writer Tom Mikulka’s critique of President Obama (Dec. 16). One person cannot enact a lasting progressive agenda, even if he is the president. The only way President Obama could have enacted legislation that would have pleased Mr. Mikulka would have been to […]
Published
December 22, 2016

Letter to the editor: Good Samaritan thanked for rescue from snowdrift

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the kind gentleman who stopped to help haul me out of a snowdrift at the end of my driveway that I had tripped and fallen into last Saturday on Estes Drive in Freeport. The snow was so deep and soft that I couldn’t get my feet under […]
Published
December 22, 2016

Letter to the editor: Social Security benefits stay the same another year

I believe that everyone who receives Social Security as a retirement income receives a benefits letter from the Social Security Administration each year, in mid-December, that tells them how much they will receive each month for the coming year. Last year Social Security recipients did not get a cost-of-living raise, apparently because our government officials […]
Published
December 22, 2016

Letter to the editor: Make holiday safe and secure for family pets

As we celebrate joyfully with friends and family this holiday season, American Humane – the country’s first national humane organization – is reminding pet owners to take safety steps to ensure that the holidays are just as merry for their furry friends. When you deck the halls, keep in mind that many popular holiday decorations […]

Published
December 21, 2016

Letter to the editor: Conservative columnist M.D. Harmon may be surprised when popular progressive causes show staying power

M.D. Harmon has made great display of his elastic patriotism in his Dec. 16 column. He’s entirely comfortable with the idea of a foreign despot influencing American elections to the advantage of his candidate, but would be fuming about treason if the shoe were on the other foot: Lenin’s “useful idiots” were evidently nondenominational. It’s […]
Published
December 21, 2016

Letter to the editor: Pipeline firm’s greedy blunders to blame for costly South Portland lawsuit

I am writing in response to Charles McNutt’s Dec. 10 letter, “Anti-pipeline appeal poorly timed” (Page A6). What seems particularly achieving of “new levels of absurdity and bad judgment,” as Mr. McNutt writes, is his seemingly full-time negation of anything of true value in South Portland. In yet another rant against genuinely progressive efforts in […]
Published
December 21, 2016

Letter to the editor: Trump’s breezy style with security issues scares me

I’m appalled by Donald Trump’s cavalier approach to security briefings. These briefings are the most important weapon we have for understanding our friends and enemies. Unless he has a crystal ball or believes everything that chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, et al., provide him, I don’t see how his being smart can help him […]
Published
December 21, 2016

Letter to the editor: If wealthy Trump nominees get OK, we need accounting of equity holdings they divest

As Donald Trump taps more and more megawealthy business leaders for major U.S. leadership positions, there should be a general accounting of the equity holdings they divest. See, for the likes of Goldman Sachs bankers and Rex Tillerson, longtime CEO of ExxonMobil (being vetted as secretary of state), they are permitted to divest their personal […]
Published
December 21, 2016

Letter to the editor: Why can’t we touch the library’s turtle sculpture?

I love turtles. I love the new turtle sculpture in the Portland Public Library. I have one concern: You aren’t allowed to touch it. It is beautiful, tactile and begs to be touched. When put in the middle of seating at ground level, it cries out “touch me.” I think you are creating a new […]

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