Letters

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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: Maine needs plan for future energy mix

Even though I’m involved in the energy industry, it doesn’t make it any easier to understand where Maine should be going regarding our energy future. A complex matrix is created by the recent flood of news, including biomass plants – supposedly supplying 20-plus percent of our electricity – potentially going offline; the removal of small […]
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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: Newcomers unaware of Margaret Chase Smith’s contributions

Some of my co-workers are new to Maine and have no idea who Margaret Chase Smith was. Nor were they aware of her speech: “I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to victory on the four horsemen of calumny – fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.” She was, and still is, a Maine treasure. […]
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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: Columnist misses crucial point in equal-pay rant

Regarding Cynthia Dill‘s spew in the April 3 Maine Sunday Telegram re: angry white guys having to suck it up in relation to the unfairness of women’s pay scales over time for comparable wages paid to men, I had to take a breath and step back to formulate my thoughts. In a nutshell, I do […]
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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: Maine senator not too busy to help confused stranger

Like the rest of us, he commented on the bumpy descent we had just experienced. Since he was the last one on the bus, he was the first one off, and I assumed he was racing off to a meeting. It was with some surprise that I almost bumped into him as I, myself, left […]
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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: ‘Poetry’ no longer covers work of today’s word artists

Marianne Moore, in an interview with Donald Hall for the Winter 1961 Paris Review, stated: “I disliked the term ‘poetry’ for any but Chaucer’s or Shakespeare’s or Dante’s. I do not now feel quite my original hostility to the word, since it is a convenient, almost unavoidable term for the thing (although hardly for me […]

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April 17, 2016

Letter to the editor: Signatures deplorable in era that eschews cursive writing

Re: “Ballot question on legal pot hinges on signatures like these” (Page A1, April 3): It’s beyond me how in the world signatures appearing on nomination papers – or any other important papers requiring one’s personal signature as receipt, acknowledgment, proof, etc. – can be read as true by handwriting experts, or anyone. I’ve recently […]
Published
April 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: LePage’s lawsuit defense is troubling

As a citizen of Maine, a taxpayer and a former academic, I am deeply troubled by the governor’s defense in the lawsuit filed against him by Speaker Mark Eves (“Lawyer: Governor didn’t act on threat, has legal immunity,” Page B1, April 14). If I, as a citizen, had called the principal of Good Will-Hinckley to […]
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April 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: Mighty masses of people must act to stop extinction

When my husband, Keith Williams, an avid environmentalist and dedicated scientist, comments on some act or thought of particular moral value, he says, “That is a noble thing.” At this moment in time, every living being on Earth is facing the greatest challenge ever presented. This challenge comes from the wisdom of a living sage, […]
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April 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: Senate blockade of nominee is a breach of responsibilities

In recent weeks, our two U.S. senators have met with Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s impressive and highly qualified nominee to fill the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. We applaud Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King for meeting with Judge Garland and for urging their Senate colleagues to meet with […]
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April 16, 2016

Letter to the editor: Help law enforcement fight drugs scourge by tuning in

The fatalities and addictions caused by drug use are very troubling to me. Part of the reason with society’s huge drug problem is certainly spiritual. And the primary cause are those who steal and/or sell those drugs. We can all assist law enforcement in battling this problem by paying close attention to what is going […]

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