Letters

Published
June 1, 2015

Letter to the editor: Decision to close Mercy Recovery Center sad for recovery community

It is a sad day for the recovery community with Mercy Hospital’s decision to close the Mercy Recovery Center and Mercy Addiction Medicine. For those of us who worked there – 14 years for me – we know that it is much more than brick and mortar. It is a place of hope and redemption. […]
Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: Relaxed mining regulations spell doom for environment

A revised mining bill (L.D. 750) will soon come before the Legislature for a vote. Please contact your legislators and ask them to vote against this dangerous bill. This bill was crafted to favor J.D. Irving, Ltd., not to protect Maine’s environment. L.D. 750 as amended allows open-pit mining with tailings ponds for treatment and […]
Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: No real champ at Lewiston bout of 1965

I am writing regarding the Maine Sunday Telegram front-page article on the Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston fight of 50 years ago in Lewiston (“The moment that made Ali,” May 24). I find the writing too polite. The fight was clearly fixed, and Liston took a dive as soon as he could. As the article notes, even […]
Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: Bistro 233 deserves better than Schwartz’s bad review

Re: “Dine Out Maine: Bistro 233 in Yarmouth” (May 3): Bistro 233 must now be out of business, employees must now be out of work and James Schwartz must now be basking in his own self-created limelight! The scathing review of Bistro 233 should never have been printed, and such a determination should have been […]
Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: Concealed-carry proposal loaded with dangers

We are responding to the recent letter (May 25) claiming that the “freedom to carry guns results in lower crime rates.” The writer mentions six states that have laws similar to the legislation being proposed for Maine that would eliminate the need to get a concealed-weapons permit. While saying that others manipulate facts and he […]

Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: Koch brothers seem beyond repentance for eco-sins

As a tree-hugging, silver-sneakered, lover of planet Earth, I asked a Unitarian Universalist minister who serves on the same advocacy network that I do if a UU may, in good conscience, wish for the justice of having a super storm blow all the Koch brothers’ mansions into the acidifying ocean. Her answer was calm and […]
Published
May 31, 2015

Letter to the editor: Solar power offers Maine a bright, sunny future

Solar power makes sense for Maine. Solar panels may cost a bundle to install, but the energy is free. Installation costs can be paid off in loan payments to a bank instead of 15 years of electricity bills. Then it’s all free – no more bills. If your house is shaded, you can join in […]
Published
May 30, 2015

Letter to the editor: Policymakers should focus on growing racial wealth gap

Re: “Portland officials join their voices to denounce racism, bigotry” (May 7): Thank you to the Portland Press Herald for reporting on the racism and bigotry within our state and country. I would also extend a thank you to the members of the Portland City Council and School Board who attended the recent news conference […]
Published
May 30, 2015

Letter to the editor: Under the banner of ‘freedom,’ people operate beyond the rules

At least three articles in the Portland Press Herald on May 14 struck a note for me. Have we in the so-called developed world become so enamored of “freedom” that we, as a group, use this abstract noun as a slogan, impulsively propelling us to act just as we please, without regard for consequences to […]
Published
May 30, 2015

Letter to the editor: To address pork barrel spending, King, Collins should rethink support for destroyer

Recently I have wondered how Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins and Rep. Chellie Pingree were spending their time in Washington, representing the interests of all voters in Maine. An article on the front page of the Portland Press Herald on May 26 answered my question (“Senators keep eye on funding ‘owed’ to BIW for […]

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