Letters

Published
July 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: Doctors deserve gratitude for writing about climate change

As a 60-year member of the Maine Medical Association, may I express my delight, and also congratulate Drs. Lisa Ryan and Daniel Oppenheim for finally bringing MMA into a leadership position regarding the changes in our climate, as indicated in their July 11 op-ed (“Maine Voices: Denial, delay by fossil fuel industry have slowed action […]
Published
July 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: Clarifying tipped-wage credit and its impact on Portland

Based on the Portland Press Herald’s recommendation to increase the tipped credit wage (“Our View: Portland should leave tipped-wage hike as is,” July 11) – as well as several letters to the editor – there seems to be a misunderstanding of the tipped-wage credit and its effect on Portland’s recently approved minimum wage of $10.10 per […]
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July 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: It’s time to take on issues that ‘little people’ face

I am a 57-year-old adult. I am gay. I lived most of my life trying to live in the hetero world. I was brought up in a Christian family. I loved my church until I found that gays were sinners. When you believe that God is an all-loving God, how sad is that? As U.S. […]
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July 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: There are actions we can take to help protect birds

Re: “Letter to the editor: A backyard once full of birds is strangely silent this year” (July 10): Here are some reasons for the writer’s observation about missing birds: At this time of year, the courtship of spring quiets down a bit, as many broods have fledged. Yet among the reasons for an overall decline […]
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July 16, 2015

Letter to the editor: Zoning has protected historic Yarmouth

The recent front-page story “Yarmouth loosens leash on growth” (July 13) left me uneasy. Though I understand the economics behind diversifying the tax base in the wake of changes at Wyman Station, as a multi-decade resident of the area who grew up in Cumberland, I hope Yarmouth town planners do not become shortsighted at relaxed […]

Published
July 15, 2015

Letter to the editor: All need to agree that lives are more important than guns

Mental illness, combined with readily accessible legal automatic weapons, is the absolute formula for another Columbine and Sandy Hook massacre. An all-consuming hatred of blacks plus the capability of purchasing a legal weapon on the open market resulted in the senseless deaths of nine innocent worshipers in a Charleston church of God. The consequence of […]
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July 15, 2015

Letter to the editor: A protector of children  and an act of indifference

By the time the Nazis closed the border in 1939, terminating the program, 669 children, most of them Jewish, had been safely transported to England. I also read a few days ago that the Legislature had overridden Gov. Le-Page’s veto of L.D. 1017 (the Maine Parentage Act) – the product of over a decade’s work […]
Published
July 15, 2015

Letter to the editor: Once captured, suspect shouldn’t be given publicity

Re: “FBI: Check failed to halt weapon sale to wanted gunman” (Page A1, July 11): You do a service to the community when you publish the picture of a wanted fugitive, but you do us a grave disservice when you continue to publish his picture – on the front page, no less – after he […]
Published
July 15, 2015

Letter to the editor: End-of-life counseling should be mandatory

Medicare’s July 8 decision to pay physicians to counsel their patients on end-of-life care should not be voluntary but mandatory, for if this decision is put off to the end or near end, a patient may not be and often is not capable of making a rational choice. There are few people who would not […]
Published
July 15, 2015

Letter to the editor: Coverage ‘trivializes’ Gov. LePage’s behavior

First, I’d like to thank Mike Tipping for his column of July 11 (“Just what the heck was Gov. Paul LePage thinking?”). While I’m shocked by Gov. LePage’s recent actions, I’m almost equally shocked by much of the reporting associated with these actions. One example is the failure of many reporters to fairly analyze the […]

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