Letters

Published
April 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Maine offers more college options than depicted

The Maine Sunday Telegram article “College costs belie conventional wisdom” (March 22) provides students with some insights into higher education options within Maine. Unfortunately, this limited discussion focuses only on the differences between three elite private colleges and two major public institutions. As a result, the reader is left with the false impression that these […]
Published
April 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Use of state’s public lands calls for legal resolution

Re: Kevin Miller’s March 22 article “Public land becomes epicenter in state fight”: The Maine Constitution, Article IX, Section 23 states: “State park land, public lots or other real estate held by the state for conservation or recreation purposes and designated by legislation implementing this section may not be reduced or its use substantially altered […]
Published
April 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Allowing silencers on guns to kill animals a bad idea

Maine’s hunting lobby, made up of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and similar groups, has introduced a number of bills this season intended to increase the hunting minority. For example, L.D. 156 would allow children over 8 years old to hunt if accompanied by an adult, and L.D. 424 would make it legal for firearms […]
Published
April 5, 2015

Letter to the editor: Barney Frank correct about danger of spending on nuclear arms

Barney Frank’s thoughtful March 8 column, “Pentagon budget due for a trim,” compellingly exposes the blatant inconsistency between unsustainable increases in the military budget for more enormously expensive nuclear weapons on the one hand, and the need to reduce the budget deficit on the other. He points out that it is wishful thinking to expect […]
Published
April 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Pledge of Allegiance saga spawns lively discussion

Pledge of allegiance saga spawns lively discussion A reading class at Noble Adult Education has followed the Pledge of Allegiance saga at South Portland High School with great interest. Besides being a complex and fascinating story, it has given us opportunity to explore the word “ironic.” Social media posters who assumed the students behind the […]

Published
April 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Harborside buildings must preserve Fore Street vista

There is a perception that people who want to see the harbor go to Fort Allen Park or the Eastern Promenade instead of standing on the Fore Street sidewalk by the Portland Co. This is not true. People do stand there to take in the view. They take pictures, pull their cars over to watch […]
Published
April 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: West Bayside opponents misguided

Greg Kesich’s recent column calling for more housing in the city was an accurate and clear assessment of Portland’s needs. The attack by letter writer Peter Monro, who argues that Kesich is “misguided” and who also implies that Kesich is a shill for big developers, is ludicrous (“Columnist overlooks what unbounded growth could do to […]
Published
April 4, 2015

Letter to the editor: Protect Fore Street harbor view for all to see

The proposed rezoning of the 58 Fore St. property in Portland could be another Union Station moment for the city. The quest for urban revitalization is leading to gentrification. If the zoning has none of the restrictions recommended by the Soul of Portland group, it will be talked about for years to come: “What a […]
Published
April 3, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage is out of step on drug policy

Regarding your front-page report on the Maine governor’s war on drugs (“Impassioned Gov. LePage calls for drug battle reinforcements,” April 1): In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse a public enemy. Since then the U.S. prison population has been exploding; we have the largest in the world! The Department of Justice in 2011 reported that […]
Published
April 3, 2015

Letter to the editor: Newspaper story overlooked perils of melting Arctic ice

If the Portland Press Herald is going to present melting Arctic sea ice as largely an opportunity for “entrepreneurial engagement” that opens up more commercial possibilities for “natural resource extraction” (“Looking for edge, Maine plunges into Arctic policy,” March 30), then good journalistic practice means you owe readers a story about the unprecedented weather, social […]

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