Letters

Published
July 24, 2015

Letter to the editor: Matching unemployed with employers: paycheck heaven

I just saw a piece on a local news program showing a contractor lamenting that he can’t find enough workers to hire for construction projects he has lined up. There have been other news stories concerning other businesses with the same issue: no workers to hire! Why aren’t the people at the unemployment offices around […]
Published
July 24, 2015

Letter to the editor: Confederate flag is racist and dishonors gravestones

Re: “Letter to the editor: Troubled by growth of ‘political correctness’ “ (July 18): Replacement of a Confederate flag by the flag of the United States at a cemetery gravestone is an entirely appropriate action. Slavery, the fundamental and only basis for the Civil War, has been obscured, thanks to revisionist textbooks. The rewriting and […]
Published
July 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: Let foreigners seek asylum somewhere other than Maine

Re: “Greg Kesich: More action is needed to save asylum seekers from a dire fate” (July 1): How dare you! Four city councilors dared to side with the taxpayers of Portland, and you publicly chastise them because they did not support your and the Portland Press Herald’s ultra-progressive view of carte blanche funding for asylum […]
Published
July 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: A true republic would shun ties with Cuba

Our president recently stood at a lectern and stated that we will establish an embassy in the Republic of Cuba. That statement made my head spin. Cuba is a communist dictatorship. The United States is a republic. Most of our populace thinks that we live in a democracy, but that is not true. Read what […]
Published
July 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: Lax gun laws repel these would-be Maine vacationers

We had a family reunion trip planned in York for the summer of 2016, then canceled at the news of Maine’s new permit-free concealed handgun law. A close friend who worked as a social worker in Maine cited the horrific cases he was assigned to and how this gun law is a nightmare. America’s gun […]

Published
July 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: Tourist trade-offs include snarled traffic

I just spent close to an hour driving from my office at the Fish Pier to Casco Bay Lines, and then home near Deering High School. Of course, it was rush hour, so I should have expected an extra 10 or 15 minutes. But seven block-the-box traffic lights, innumerable tourists walking wherever they want, cars […]
Published
July 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: Trump could not have survived McCain’s capture

Donald Trump thinks that John McCain is not a war hero just because he was captured. Trump is right – but what he doesn’t understand is that McCain is a hero because he survived his capture and all of the horrific treatment that came with it. Pamela Brant Westbrook
Published
July 22, 2015

Letter to the editor: Reclaim Lincoln Park land in Franklin Street redesign

I’ve been a fan of Markos Miller since before I became chief spear carrier for the Friends of Lincoln Park and our goal of restoring this historic treasure. Therefore, I wish to openly congratulate him on his Maine Voices column on the redesigning of Franklin Street (“Franklin Street redesign promotes growth of city while keeping […]
Published
July 22, 2015

Letter to the editor: Rep. Vachon’s vote against override shows far-right alignment

After what was a particularly undistinguished first year as state “representative,” last week Karen Vachon cast what will likely be the defining vote of her brief political career. Maine voters have overwhelmingly voted for bonds to fund the highly successful Land for Maine’s Future program. Twice our governor has held those bonds hostage for his […]
Published
July 22, 2015

Letter to the editor: Parents should act when kids misbehave in restaurants

Kudos to Marcy’s Diner for bouncing a spoiled child and her unruly parents (“Owner of Portland diner defends yelling at screaming child,” July 19). When my children were that age and we went out for a meal, if they misbehaved or acted out, we would give them one warning. If they continued, my wife or […]

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