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  • Published
    May 9, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Councilor needs to support homeless

    In an April 24 article (“Portland city councilors want to protect funding for dental clinic”), Portland City Councilor Jon Hinck was quoted: “If we have to choose between programs that go to homeless adults and child dental care, we’ve got to save the child dental care.” We find this comment to be not only alarming, […]

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    May 9, 2015

    Letter to the editor: End-of-life bill offers safe, compassionate choices

    L.D. 1270, “An Act Regarding Patient-directed Care at the End of Life,” provides a safe, compassionate choice in the following ways: • It is not for a person with a normal life expectancy; it’s for adults at the end stage of illness who want a prescription to hasten their death. • It establishes a process to follow […]

  • Published
    May 8, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Shooter should do public service to prevent gun violence

    I write as a bystander, knowing only information from the Portland Press Herald, and my opinion is based on being an 87-year-old psychiatrist and gun owner (a .22-caliber single-shot rifle with a defective bolt) who is highly concerned about gun violence. What happened at Brown’s Bee Farm in 2013 was a tragedy for two familiies, […]

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    May 8, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Bill would lead to informed decisions about vaccines

    Do you know anyone who’s survived a vaccine-preventable disease, like measles or polio? Have you seen a baby suffocate from pertussis? Even 20 years ago, toddlers were dying from H. flu meningitis. Immunizations save lives. L.D. 471 aims to reduce vaccine-preventable disease by ensuring parents take part in discussion and education about the benefits and […]

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    May 8, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Some have reasons to opt against Mom’s Day gifts

    With tongue in cheek, I’m completely mortified by “Dear Abby.” Paraphrasing Wikipedia, Mother’s Day was originated in 1908 by Anna Jarvis. Her primary intent was to honor her mother, who had been very active in supporting wounded soldiers from both sides of the Civil War and had created “Mother’s Day Work Clubs to address public […]

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  • Published
    May 8, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Maine should invest in education, not tax schemes

    In his April 30 column, “Instead of wasting money on tax scams, we should invest in ourselves,” Alan Caron asks us to imagine if the $16 million from the Great Northern scheme had been put into 1,000 small businesses in Maine. As the founder of a new education nonprofit in Maine, I can’t help but […]

  • Published
    May 7, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Speak out against words of hate

    Sometimes we don’t always say the things that need to be said. In our private lives we don’t always say our “pleases” and “thank yous.” We don’t always tell our friends and family members that we love them. Maybe it’s apathy. Maybe it’s just habit. Maybe it’s because we think these things are obvious and […]

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    May 7, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Mainers should join together to protect landline phones

    We recently testified against L.D. 1302. This legislation would allow phone service providers to opt out of landline service in certain areas of the state. FairPoint Communications, our incumbent provider of last resort, states on its website: “There’s still nothing like the dependability of a landline. … The home phone is the main tool for […]

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    May 7, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Green energy projects long on promises short on results

    My wife and I recently visited Germany and were shocked to see the level to which the German government has embraced so-called renewable energy sources. The skyline in just about every direction was dotted with giant windmills, most of them sitting dormant, and most homes had large solar panel arrays on their roofs and in […]

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    May 7, 2015

    Letter to the editor: Remove nuclear waste before talking new plants

    While Gov. LePage attempts to make it easier to build a new nuclear power plant in Maine, the radioactive spent fuel from the closed Maine Yankee plant sits festering in Wiscasset. Unless I missed something, the federal government’s promise to create a safe place for the nation’s spent fuel has never been realized. The people […]