Letters

Published
August 26, 2016

Letter to the editor: Help fund work to eliminate last big gap in Eastern Trail

It’s summer on the coast of Maine, and there’s no better time of year to appreciate the value of the Eastern Trail. For those who aren’t already frequent users, the Eastern Trail system traverses 65 miles between Kittery and South Portland. It’s part of the larger East Coast Greenway that aims to connect Maine to […]
Published
August 26, 2016

Letter to the editor: Biddeford makes big plans but is seeing little progress

I am a taxpayer here in Biddeford, and I am so sick of seeing the city’s 2016 Strategic Plan and its references to the city’s “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.” If you read the plan, it all pertains to the downtown. And it’s been since 2012 that the Maine Energy Recovery Co. plant has been […]
Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Muslims unduly profiled as jihadists

We are all aware that we live in perhaps the oldest and least diverse state in the nation, where Gov. Le-Page has on several occasions tried to encourage our younger citizens to stay put after high school and college. Yet, right here in our midst, we have a bright, resourceful, hardworking and talented pool of […]
Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: State’s Republican leaders spreading Islamophobia

An imam and his aide are murdered in Queens, and Muslims in Westbrook receive death threats. The racism of Donald Trump is achieving its violent effect. Our elected Republican officials – Paul LePage, Maine’s governor, and U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin – add fuel to the fire by claiming that Maine’s immigrants are terrorists on the […]
Published
August 25, 2016

Letter to the editor: Higher minimum wage works against unemployed

If you can’t win the argument, change the subject. It’s a tactic familiar to anyone who’s run for public office. And it’s one I encounter time and again in letters to the editor that criticize the Employment Policies Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit where I serve as executive director (“Wage-hike foe should disclose his sources’ […]

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 […]

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