Letters

Published
October 11, 2015

Letter to the editor: Help young people face climate change with active hope

“Getting that sinking feeling” (Maine Sunday Telegram, Sept. 20) raises an important and little-discussed problem: How do we cope with feelings about climate change? The article describes the despair, discouragement and fear so many people have and shows us Mainers whose businesses and households have been hurt by the freak storms that many people feel […]
Published
October 10, 2015

Letter to the editor: Hardworking Lyons has earned our vote for council

I am writing to support Wells Lyons for District 2, Portland City Council. I met Wells at a neighborhood meeting last year, and I was immediately impressed with his commitment to our city. In addition to his volunteer work on the boards of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections and the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust, Wells […]
Published
October 10, 2015

Letter to the editor: Vote for Korobkin is a vote for a visionary who listens

I’m urging a vote for Rob Korobkin for Portland City Council, District 2. While the current council’s tenure has bogged down in clashes with residents over Portland’s redevelopment, the housing crisis worsens, municipal budgets are overloaded and an addiction epidemic spreads. If we continue with business as usual, sooner than we think the city will […]
Published
October 10, 2015

Letter to the editor: Coverage of WNBA finals repeats attention deficit

Earlier this summer, a few days before the U.S. women’s soccer team played in the World Cup final, the Press Herald posted a sports editorial pointing out that one big reason women’s sports are not supported enough is that the media do not give them nearly equal coverage as men’s sports. Well, here we go […]
Published
October 10, 2015

Letter to the editor: Your image of Arundel needs repair

Re: “Arundel aims to become seasonal destination with cottage project” (Sept. 30): I would like to add that we citizens in Arundel are extremely proud of what developer Joe Paolini is doing. The model home is beautiful. He and marketing director Kim White are doing a superb job, to say the least. But I was […]

Published
October 10, 2015

Letter to the editor: Thibodeau’s trademark caring, energy get my vote

I am a former public school teacher and a Parkside resident, and I could not be more excited to support Spencer Thibodeau for Portland City Council, District 2. Spencer has my support because he is to the point on school systems and realizes the importance of the whole child being seen in her or his […]
Published
October 9, 2015

Letter to the editor: ‘Improved Medicare for All’ bill makes sense for Mainers

Joe Lawlor’s Sept. 16 article “Cost jumps for extended individual health plans” paraphrases Emily Brostek of Consumers for Affordable Health Care as saying that “… choosing from a myriad of marketplace plans can be daunting.” His article notes that “navigators” can assist consumers. What every Mainer under 65 years old gets from for-profit health insurers […]
Published
October 9, 2015

Letter to the editor: Congratulations to Bill Nemitz on Maine Press Association Hall of Fame induction

I read with total delight that my favorite columnist, Bill Nemitz, is to be inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame (Page B3, Oct. 6). If I could attend the ceremony, I would probably clap my hands so hard I might hurt myself. I honestly think I can speak for all of his […]
Published
October 9, 2015

Letter to the editor: McDonald’s does right  in choosing cage-free hens

Regarding the letter to the editor “McDonald’s should know that cage-free hens’ lives not all they’re cracked up to be” (Sept. 29): McDonald’s did the right thing by announcing a switch to cage-free eggs. Most egg-laying chickens in our nation are locked inside cages so small they can’t even spread their wings. Ample science demonstrates […]
Published
October 9, 2015

Letter to the editor: Columnist Harmon should exercise some skepticism

I must admit to a certain amount of glee as I wait to see M.D. Harmon eat his super-sized Crow Burger. He was too ready by half to accept the flim-flam story served up by that mendacious, self-promoting charlatan Mat Staver and the putative “audience” of Kim Davis with the pope (“Turns out, pope shares […]

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