Letters

Published
October 14, 2016

Letter to the editor: Red Sox focused too much on Ortiz

Watching the Red Sox during the run-up to their big flop has been a frustrating experience. What can explain how such a thing could have happened? • Too much and too often making such a sideshow about Big Papi’s retirement. Such repeated hoopla disrupts the team’s preparation for the job at hand. Many games did not […]
Published
October 13, 2016

Letter to the editor: Donations needed for orphans in Haiti

All of Haiti needs immediate help, but one place in particular has a Maine connection. That is the farming village of Pwoje Espwa, near Les Cayes, where the Rev. Marc Boisvert, a revered Catholic priest from Lewiston, started a school for orphan children. The earthquake in 2010 was a brutal time for them and they […]
Published
October 13, 2016

Letter to the editor: Limiting short-term rentals would hurt homeowner

Re: “Rules for short-term rentals like those through Airbnb proposed in Portland” (Oct. 12): I’m a resident of City Council District 4 in Portland. I own a single-family home on Whittier Street, off Veranda. I’m a social worker at the Veterans Administration, and I’m also an officer in the Maine Army National Guard. I bought […]
Published
October 13, 2016

Letter to the editor: Voters urged to write in  Castle and Bradley

Does the presidential race feel like an unmitigated disaster? Vote for Darrell Castle of Germantown, Tennessee, of the Constitution Party for president and Scott Bradley of North Logan, Utah, for vice president. Although they’re not on the ballot, Maine has authorized them as write-in candidates. We the people can improve our government only by opposing […]
Published
October 13, 2016

Letter to the editor: Faith-based forgiveness doesn’t extend past Trump

I refer to your front-page Washington Post article of Oct. 11, “Ryan gives up on Trump in blow to party unity.” The article addresses the aftermath resulting from presidential candidate Donald J. Trump revealing his true self in remarks captured on tape. As a result, many, if not most, high-ranking Republicans have separated themselves from […]

Published
October 13, 2016

Letter to the editor: Count on Republicans  to fall for double standard

Private citizen Donald Trump is caught, on an 11-year-old tape, in a raunchy, sexually explicit tape regarding women. The Republican hierarchy rushes to the moral high ground. They cannot support such a man for the presidency. Democrats agree and say that he is unfit to serve. President Bill Clinton is caught, in real time, literally […]
Published
October 12, 2016

Letter to the editor: Trump’s attitude toward women revives an awful memory

I remember being a young woman reading about “wilding” in New York City and being terrified of the Central Park Five (five teenagers of color who were convicted in the 1989 rape and beating of a jogger but later exonerated). It was especially terrifying to me because the previous year, I had been raped. And […]
Published
October 12, 2016

Letter to the editor: Did Hillary Clinton lie about emails, or was she simply mistaken?

People make false statements either unintentionally or deliberately. A false statement made unintentionally is due to a sincere but mistaken belief. A false statement made deliberately is called a lie, and is intended to deceive those for whom such statement is intended. Many of us have the unfortunate habit of assuming that if a person […]
Published
October 12, 2016

Letter to the editor: Krauthammer column had one-sided view of president’s performance

I write in response to Charles Krauthammer’s Oct. 7 op-ed column, “If not for bizarre election, Obama’s legacy would be losing in a rout” (Page A9). As he often has, Krauthammer condemns the Affordable Care Act as a complete failure. Then he even more loftily condemns what he calls President Obama’s foreign policy as “pristine […]
Published
October 12, 2016

Letter to the editor: Chickenpox story didn’t say if sick children had been vaccinated

In regard to the article in last Wednesday’s Portland Press Herald on the chickenpox cases at Yarmouth’s Rowe School: No mention was made of whether the ill children had had chicken pox vaccinations or not. It would be interesting to know if the controversial, possibly harmful, serum is effective or not. Mabel O’Brien Falmouth

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