Letters

Published
April 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: New law will help focus training on skills that employers need

While I was alarmed to see the results of a new report on manufacturing jobs, which said that there is a workforce shortage in Maine and the other New England states, I was pleased to see the attention being given to this important issue by the New England Council. The good news is that we […]
Published
April 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: State is failing to protect residents of private roads

In the past several years, I’ve had considerable trouble with all-terrain vehicles terrorizing my neighborhood. I ﬁled several complaints with the sheriff’s department and the game wardens. Unfortunately, they couldn’t help much. I finally had to ﬁle a restraining order against the most obnoxious offender. I’ve spent some time reviewing state laws regulating ATVs and […]
Published
April 28, 2015

Letter to the editor: Don’t let ethics questions stop life-saving transplant

Because of concerns over fundraising ethics, a kidney donation is put on hold. A mother desperately needs this kidney to live and care for her child. Donor Josh Dall-Leighton is going to need time to heal and care for his family, and that will require money. Settle these issues and get the surgery completed and […]
Published
April 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Logic shows many pluses  of the Affordable Care Act

Face the real truth here. What we are getting with Obamacare is better than what we have had. It will cut infant mortality and all other deaths. It will increase longevity for all of us. It will alleviate suffering. How wonderful is that? It’s a Republican idea. The rest of the rich nations of the […]
Published
April 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Risk assessment strategy could cut incarceration time

Efforts to reform Maine’s cash bail system – in addition to the introduction of Sen. Eric Brakey’s L.D. 1113, An Act to Replace the Bail Code with a System of Validated Risk Assessment Tools – call attention to the issues related to pretrial incarceration rates and overcrowded jails and prisons. These factors mostly affect indigent clients […]

Published
April 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Community solar installations make sense

I liked the proposal that Tex Haeuser, South Portland city planner, has made regarding the possibility of a solar array being installed on a closed landfill (“Maine solar energy advocates stand behind incentives,” April 17). With the cost of electricity produced by power plants using coal, oil or natural gas constantly increasing, what better use […]
Published
April 27, 2015

Letter to the editor: Not only jobs but higher pay are needed to beat poverty

Re: “Letter to the editor: First, fund jobs for Maine’s needy, then discuss requiring work” (April 17): The writer of this letter said that “public assistance over time is disempowering and often self-perpetuating.” Public assistance over time is not in and of itself “disempowering” and “self-perpetuating” – low wages are. How do we expect to […]
Published
April 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage’s agenda puts preservation in jeopardy

I am a person who loves Maine, pays hefty taxes and goes to the polls at every opportunity. Gov. LePage’s newest tactic of withholding $11.5 million from the Lands for Maine Future projects is an abomination. How can he believe that he personally is allowed to constrict the will of people who voted for these […]
Published
April 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Mill story is a reminder of those ‘fast-talkers’ at Penn National

Poor Miss Maine. She falls for these smooth-talking Wall Street fellas and comes home with her hair a mess, her dress ripped, and stuck with the kid, the mortgage, and the tab for dinner. Remember the one from Penn National? Complained that the pre-nup she negotiated would break him. Within a year he had sold […]
Published
April 26, 2015

Letter to the editor: Lawmakers miss expensive errors while focused on the ‘little’ stuff

Within 24 hours, I learned about a one-word clerical error that can potentially cost $38 million in energy-efficiency funding, and a tax loophole that allowed out-of-state “investors” for Great Northern Paper to receive $16 million for producing no new jobs. Not a tax break against taxes owed, but an actual payment. The $16 million is […]

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