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  • Published
    March 17, 2016

    Letter to the editor: City needs to be sure evictions are done fairly

    The Libbytown Neighborhood Association is concerned about news of evictions in Portland, most recently from 31-33 Frederic St. The purpose of this letter is to express our concern for our neighbors, and let you know that as a neighborhood association, we care about our resident’s whose voices may not always be heard. Specifics of the […]

  • Published
    March 16, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Trump’s rise reflects how far 
we have fallen as a nation

    Making America great again. Expanding the Republican Party. Breaking the self-serving cycle of party politics. I could go on, but I don’t need to, because you already know everything about Donald Trump’s unlikely rise to national political prominence, right? It’s everywhere, every day, fueling the most emotional response to a political campaign that most of […]

  • Published
    March 16, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Business groups, Katz offend by moving against minimum wage hike

    There’s something really offensive about the end run the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are leading to circumvent the work of hundreds of Maine citizens who gathered signatures and the thousands who signed on in support of increasing the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. In a recent op-ed (“Maine Voices: […]

  • Published
    March 16, 2016

    Letter to the editor: LePage should release voter-approved funds for senior housing

    As an elder law attorney, I know that the No. 1 concern and goal of my clients is that they be able to “age in place” and remain safely in their homes and communities. However, for many Maine seniors this is not possible. Older adults across Maine are living in unsafe housing that they can […]

  • Published
    March 16, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Loss of angle parking would shutter Knightville salon

    I am the owner of Flair for Hair in South Portland. I want to express how upset I am about the parking problem in Knightville. We are a very small salon; there are four of us. I can’t express how, if we lose angle parking, it will affect us. We have already fought for this once. We […]

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  • Published
    March 15, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Mental health unit would send innocent people to jail

    I am writing to express my concerns about a bill that is currently before our Legislature. L.D. 440 would build a mental health unit in jail for forensic patients, individuals awaiting mental health examinations to determine if they are able to stand trial. In short, this bill would be placing innocent individuals in prison. In […]

  • Published
    March 15, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Bars don’t have advantage in profiting from craft beer

    In the March 6 newspaper, Joshua Langlais maintains (“Letter to the editor: Bars profit more than breweries, distilleries on beer, liquor”) that craft beer makers should be allowed to sell their beer in tasting rooms because, after all, they bear a much higher cost structure than bars and restaurants, which mark up beer, but only […]

  • Published
    March 15, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Pass L.D. 633 to give everybody access to good health care

    I would like to reach out to our legislators and urge them to approve L.D. 633, which gives affordable, preventative healthcare to all Maine citizens. Not every person in Maine is eligible for either MaineCare or healthcare.gov insurances. Many fall through the healthcare cracks due to low income, no minor children or monthly fees that […]

  • Published
    March 15, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Lawmakers can save lives by creating access to overdose drug

    L.D. 1547, An Act to Increase Access to the Lifesaving Overdose Antidote Naloxone Hydrochloride, left committee March 1 with a divided report. Two members voted “ought not to pass” because of concerns about the necessity of making the medicine available over the counter and the possibility of the unintended effect of encouraging greater use of […]

  • Published
    March 14, 2016

    Letter to the editor: Corporate greed trumped tax code, sent jobs abroad

    Bernie Sanders’ distribution-of-wealth theory would not have been needed, if history counts as a judge. I will explain thusly. Starting in the late 1940s through the 1960s, the tax code was such that a company could earn up to $1 million and pay the standard rate. Anything over $1 million was taxed at 90 percent. […]