Letters

Published
July 20, 2015

Letter to the editor: Smaller wage raise would make sense for Portland

The Portland City Council, after ignoring the recommendation of their Finance Committee, recently passed a new minimum-wage package. Before the vote, City Councilor Jon Hinck told me that the increase to $10.10 in 2016, $10.68 in 2017 and guaranteed increases annually after that would not harm the Portland economy and that employers make enough profit. […]
Published
July 20, 2015

Letter to the editor: Value butterflies and bees over unnatural, toxic lawns

Re: “Letter to the editor: A backyard once full of birds is strangely silent this year” (July 10): It is not just the songbirds that are suddenly missing from our garden symphony. For nine years after I moved to Maine, I very much enjoyed the constant buzzing song of the bees in my garden, as […]
Published
July 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: ‘Front-Page LePage’ seen as kingpin of bad publicity

I’ve lived in six states. I’ve maintained a level of voter vigilance in all. Nowhere have I seen the level of contention that has characterized the past few years of Maine’s political climate. Almost every day we have Gov. LePage headlining the news. Nowhere else has the governor of a state (Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut, […]
Published
July 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: Libraries as conduits of knowledge

Re: “Commentary: Checking out the future” (July 12): Your Sunday column from The Washington Post on the replacement of the books in stacks with electronic materials piqued my interest, as I am both a librarian and an avid public library user. I have to take exception, though, to one sentence of the article: “With Plato […]
Published
July 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: Gay marriage is legal now because gays fought for it

There is one important reason I am so proud of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in favor of marriage equality: It is that gay people have never relied upon figureheads to make equality rulings a reality. They did not sheepishly wait for an elected official or a legislative body to make history for them. […]

Published
July 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: Feeling good about Bernie: Key points hit the targets

Call me crazy – my wife often does – but I’m kinda happy about Bernie Sanders. I certainly hope Hillary Clinton is taking copious notes. I don’t know anyone – save for uber-wingnuts (of which Maine certainly has more than its fair share) – who would categorically dismiss Sen. Sanders’ key points. Health care for […]
Published
July 19, 2015

Letter to the editor: Weapons permit discussion misses key death rate facts

Paul S. Bachorik (“Another View: For law-abiding Americans, more gun laws unnecessary,” July 5) agrees to current gun permit laws and prefers open carry only where it could “avoid provoking fear,” but he doesn’t believe any more gun laws are needed. For greater discussion and understanding, several missing factual links need to be examined. • […]
Published
July 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Troubled by growth of ‘political correctness’

I’m deeply troubled by what’s taking place in our communities, our state, our country and the world. In these times of “political correctness,” our efforts to sanitize every aspect of our daily lives by political, racial, ethnic and all other groups to create their own vision of utopia. I was struck that a Confederate flag […]
Published
July 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Greece’s wealthy lawmakers at fault for capitulation

For more than 35 years, the policy of supply-side economics, often called “Reaganomics,” has been a dismal failure for all but a few of the most wealthy citizens worldwide. Greece, with one of the most regressive (read: hurts working folk) tax systems (including a 25 percent sales tax), has once again capitulated to the wealth […]
Published
July 18, 2015

Letter to the editor: Videoport’s closing is more than just loss of a business

Re: “Tear-jerker for movie buffs: Portland’s rental mecca Videoport to close in August” (July 15): I work in Portland, I live in the city, I walk and ride my bike to work, and for the past 23 years, I and my family have rented from Videoport. Among the five of us, we visit the basement […]

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