Letters

Published
November 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Thanks for letting me keep serving Scarborough constituents

It is my honor to have been re-elected to represent the individuals of Scarborough’s House District 28 in the Maine Legislature. Working in state government as a lawmaker in the Maine House of Representatives is a responsibility I take seriously. As a state representative, I am pleased with our progress of growing more than 20,000 […]
Published
November 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: When liberals are ill-suited to accuse right of bigotry

French designer Sophie Theallet said she will refuse to dress Melania Trump, and she urges others to do the same because of her values. She says Trump’s values do not align with hers. But too bad for Christian owners of a bakery if they refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding. They lose […]
Published
November 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Column’s ‘deplorables’ are just 22 of many

Thanks for Mikki Kendall’s Nov. 19 column, “Twenty-two of the times Michelle Obama endured personal attacks.” Kendall clearly identified 22 of the people Hillary Clinton referred to as a “basket of deplorables.” Indeed, “deplorable” and shameless they are. Nilda V. Jacobus Brunswick
Published
November 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: How many Maine voters neglected their duty?

The piece you published Nov. 12 by Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post, regarding the large number of registered voters across the country who chose not to vote, was interesting. But it would be even more interesting and relevant if you would report on the number of registered voters in Maine who chose not to […]
Published
November 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Public property shouldn’t go to a private developer

I was shocked to read of the city’s plan to pay for the extension of Thames Street with taxpayer dollars, in order to create access to a private development and to sell a critical piece of city property to the developer for less than half of its market value! There is no justification for requiring […]

Published
November 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Thanks be to the caregivers

Unfortunately, we have loved ones who have spent over 200 hours receiving chemotherapy treatment at the New England Cancer Specialists facility in Scarborough. Our extended family has had to, painfully, observe the recurrence, in 2016, of my wife’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma and my daughter’s appendiceal cancer. But, rather than be forlorn, on Thanksgiving, we are so […]
Published
November 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Legalized pot only worsens Maine’s deadly overdose crisi

Re: “Maine drug deaths averaging one a day” (Page A1, Nov. 15): What will it be in 2017? The passing of the marijuana bill will increase it by far. Teens will always find a way to get some more. As a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, I know how they think! They will find a way […]
Published
November 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Those protesting election weren’t all at the ballot box

It was interesting to see all of the people out there protesting the election outcome, spouting off against intolerance, hate and prejudice. Where was their tolerance, love and compassion toward all their fellow American citizens when they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Why were they not out there picketing and protesting against all the companies […]
Published
November 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Repealing of ACA would imperils millions of people

I am very concerned about the certain prospect that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed by Congress and its replacement will not meet the needs of millions of people who rely on the monthly subsidy in order to afford a premium for anything other than catastrophic coverage. People who have had comprehensive health coverage […]
Published
November 23, 2016

Letter to the editor: Don’t accept ‘new normal,’ get active and undo damage to our country

Is it now the “new normal” for a president-elect to gather into his inner circle a cadre of advisers who, among other things, cozy up to white-power nationalists of the alt-right sensibility, deny climate change, tweet that fear of Muslims is “rational,” and advocate “conversion” therapy for those who do not identify as heterosexual? Is […]

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