Letters

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 […]
Published
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 […]

Published
July 14, 2015

Letter to the editor: Portland City Council ignored guidance on minimum-wage tip credit

Regarding the article about the tip credit in Portland on July 8 (“Portland’s higher minimum wage comes with unforeseen hitch”): It should be noted that Mayor Michael Brennan and City Council members, were, in fact, highly aware that, even if their intention was to keep the tip credit wage at $3.75, the wording of the […]
Published
July 14, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage also squandering taxpayers’ time and money

Gov. LePage has stated that the purpose of his actions over the last month has been to waste legislators’ time. Aside from the immaturity of that reasoning alone, what about taxpayers’ time and money he’s now wasting by keeping the Legislature in session to deal with the consequences of his juvenile actions, as well as […]
Published
July 14, 2015

Letter to the editor: To a retired teacher, LePage’s actions make him look like a class bully

A short comment about our governor, Paul LePage: We listen to him complain about the Legislature not caring about the people of the state of Maine. But in his disagreement with the Legislature, he vowed to veto and has vetoed any bill sponsored by a Democrat simply because it was sponsored by a Democrat. The […]
Published
July 14, 2015

Letter to the editor: Governor should be spending his own money on veto fight

I just hope that if Gov. LePage takes this veto argument to the state supreme court, he uses his own money, not the state taxpayers’ dollars! Let him fight his own battles. He is doing this just to get attention. Too bad he is getting it. He is just making Maine – or, should I […]
Published
July 14, 2015

Letter to the editor: ‘Affordable housing’ is out of reach for many workers

What does “affordable housing” mean? For low-wage or minimum-wage workers, it is not affordable at their income. “Market rate” housing is too expensive. Working also costs: transportation, clothing, laundry, food, etc., can be costly. These workers are near homeless. How about housing for them? Assisted living and senior housing are also needed. Social Security is […]

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