Letters

Published
August 30, 2016

Letter to the editor: LePage shouldn’t speak out against Khan family

Re: “LePage calls father of deceased Muslim U.S. soldier a ‘con artist’ “ (Aug. 25): It saddens me greatly that the governor of Maine would belittle the Khan family, which has lost the dearest thing in their heart: their dear son, serving in the U.S. Army. How dare this governor say such a thing? What […]
Published
August 30, 2016

Letter to the editor: Governor should be held accountable for his threats

In response to Gov. Paul LePage’s threatening and bad language toward others: If I, as an average citizen, had said such things or made such threats, I would find myself under arrest for threatening a government official or any person. Why is Gov. LePage immune from our laws? He continually breaks the law but is […]
Published
August 30, 2016

Letter to the editor: Portland Mayor Strimling challenges critic of renter protection proposal

Last week, I proposed a series of protections for Portland renters. The protections include requiring 90 days’ notice to a family before a landlord can raise their rent or evict them without cause. The proposal also protects Portland taxpayers by preventing mass evictions that strain our social services (like we saw last winter) and ensures […]
Published
August 30, 2016

Letter to the editor: Unfit to serve, LePage should resign

A person who is unable to engage in tactful civil discourse is unfit for public service. A person who is unable to respect all of the inhabitants of the state that he or she governs is unfit to govern. A person who repeatedly engages in vulgar, violent and threatening rhetoric, in public or in private, […]
Published
August 30, 2016

Letter to the editor: In vein of Collins, Smith, speak out against LePage

For 42 years, I called Maine my home. My two children, both African-American and adopted, spent their childhoods in Maine schools. They made enduring friends. They faced, as all people of color do in our country, some racism. But, by and large, they found people who admired them and believed in them as much as […]

Published
August 29, 2016

Letter to the editor: Long may the Beach to Beacon run

I am really sorry I did not write immediately when I read the news article critical of Beach to Beacon in the Aug. 7 Maine Sunday Telegram, because a positive note might have been used to offset the criticisms in the Aug. 14 paper by letter writers Larry Kaplan and Tim Wallace. I found the […]
Published
August 29, 2016

Letter to the editor: Let’s not deny the humanity of folks who may be in need

I write in support of the letter by the Rev. Maria Anderson that ran Aug. 24. She vigorously protested the language used to describe the “cleanup” of people seeking social services in West Bayside. She found herself highly offended by people referring to the human beings in West Bayside and at the site of a […]
Published
August 29, 2016

Letter to the editor: Eastern Cemetery benefits from volunteers’ efforts

How often are there cries that we need funds for this and money to do that? A small band of volunteers are working with the group Spirits Alive to preserve history in the municipally owned Eastern Cemetery at the top of Munjoy Hill. They’ve received special training through the Association for Gravestone Studies to restore […]
Published
August 29, 2016

Letter to the editor: Salvation Army stores need donations of used clothing

With summer ending and fall approaching, are you cleaning out those old clothes and getting ready for new ones? Did you do your back-to-school shopping and need to get rid of those gently used clothes? Do you have items that have been sitting in your house for a long time that you’ve been meaning to […]
Published
August 28, 2016

Letter to the editor: Give LePage a pass on latest racial claim

Much has been made lately about Gov. LePage’s supposition that 90 percent of drug dealers coming into our state are blacks and Hispanics from southern New England, New York and points south. Look, I think much of what the governor spouts is either science fiction or stuff that is ripe for Comedy Central. On this […]

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