Letters

Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Here’s a tip for diners: Wait staff deserves gratuity

With all your sensitive news articles regarding the abysmal hourly wages for restaurant servers in Portland, I was shocked to hear from a relative that after waiting on a table for seven, with a tab of $49.80, the tip that was left was 20 cents, to be shared between the server and the busboy. When […]
Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Portland’s pricy real estate doesn’t make it appealing

Regarding the new building proposed for Washington Avenue, with units selling from $199,000 to $950,000 (Aug. 18): Could there be an uglier piece of property out there? I have watched the new real estate going up in what was once a lovely city, and I am appalled. Micheline Neveux Biddeford
Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Evangelists advised: Thou shalt not vote for adulterer

I am astounded that the Christian evangelical community, which so loudly proclaims their concern for family values, are supporting Donald Trump, an adulterer who has been married three times. Either their message of family values is hypocritical, or they do not think that such a concern applies to a candidate who wants to be the […]
Published
August 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Maine taxpayers supported radicalized Freeport man

So, let me get this straight. The Iranian refugee Adnan Fazeli came to this country to escape religious persecution from his own government. Then, after a period of time, he became self-radicalized and joined the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in Syria to kill people who did not follow the Quran according […]
Published
August 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Rhetoric, not the homeless, is what needs to be ‘cleaned up’

The rhetoric about people experiencing homelessness in Portland these days is appalling, especially to me, as a Christian faith leader. In an Aug. 8 Portland Press Herald article about a new city project to “clean up” West Bayside, one man said (partly paraphrased) that the problem is ” ‘the regulars’ and the people who are […]

Published
August 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Trump’s poll ‘observers’ anything but patriotic

Recently Donald Trump began recruiting what he’s calling “election observers” on his campaign website. This should alarm any person who values democracy, no matter what their political affiliation. Mr. Trump’s current poll numbers are miserable, and as it stands he could be facing an absolutely humiliating defeat in November. In response, instead of changing his […]
Published
August 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Poliquin owes us his stance on Republican nominee

With recent events and the raging controversy surrounding this election, it is impossible to imagine that the congressman would not have a position. That he chooses not to share that opinion with the people of Maine suggests both cowardice and a slippery desire to avoid the consequences of a decision. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, U.S. […]
Published
August 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Trump’s vitriol toward Obama is off the scale of reason

Suppose for a moment that either Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson or our beloved first president of the United States, George Washington, were opposing Donald Trump in the current presidential campaign. I can only wonder at the depths of the slanderous labels and verbal distortions that Trump would create to discredit their character. His recent barrage […]
Published
August 23, 2016

Letter to the editor: Collins, King should publicly oppose trade deal

President Obama recently put Congress on notice that he will send the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to Congress for approval after the November election. The TPP is a massive deal that incorporates 40 percent of the global economy, was negotiated behind closed doors by roughly 600 corporate advisers, while Congress and the public were locked […]
Published
August 23, 2016

Letter to the editor: Loving Italian mother gives prescription for living

Gina Barreca’s Aug. 20 column, “My destiny: Making sauce, chasing chickens around the yard,” perfectly describes how we are quietly drawn to what we have learned growing up, no matter what we may accomplish professionally. Like Gina’s, my mother’s Italian family provided a strong and loving prescription for living. This time of year, no matter […]

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