Letters

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February 13, 2015

Letter to the editor: Historic train station lost in the name of progress

If it were not so sad, Tom Bell’s Jan. 31 article, “City dreams of a bigger train station,” would be laughable. The city of Portland had a gorgeous train station. It was called Union Station, at the corner of Congress and St. John streets. There are some of us who actually shed tears as it […]
Published
February 13, 2015

Letter to the editor: Mueller’s martyrdom best honored by doing as she did

I am glad to see that the media took enough time away from focusing on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to acknowledge the death of the American foreign aid worker Kayla Mueller. And yet for all the talk about her on TV and in the papers, there is a convenient omission of any mention of […]
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February 13, 2015

Letter to the editor: Money and fame behind Little League scandal

Re: “Chicago’s Little League team stripped of national title over cheating” (Feb. 11): On the issue of Little League Baseball stripping the U.S. championship from Jackie Robinson West, I think it’s a pretty clear situation: The team would not have won the U.S. championship if not for being a “super team,” using players from outside […]
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February 13, 2015

Letter to the editor: Heavy snow necessitates disposal in sea

I understand that Portland is prohibited from dumping snow in the Atlantic Ocean. However, considering the unusually high snow pack, perhaps it would be prudent to relax this restriction. While driving through Portland’s highly constricted streets, I have seen pedestrians walking well outside the area allotted to them and often directly in the street itself. […]
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February 13, 2015

Letter to the editor: Columnist Harmon is no Charles Krauthammer

In “Another View: Readers deserve better than Harmon’s biased climate views” (Feb. 10), Dudley Greeley echoes my sentiments. The Portland Press Herald should have higher standards for paid commentary than what is offered by M.D. Harmon. I have often wondered why his columns are even published, much less that he shares space with Charles Krauthammer […]

Published
February 12, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage’s plan for opioid addiction treatment unrealistic

Re: “LePage says dropping methadone coverage is sound, but doctors disagree” (Feb. 5): I have been following Gov. LePage’s proposals for dealing with the opioid addiction epidemic that we’re in the grip of here in Maine. I am a counselor who works in the trenches of opioid addiction treatment and am very confused about the […]
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February 12, 2015

Letter to the editor: Ranked-choice voting would clean up electoral process

I was pleased to read the Portland Press Herald’s Jan. 31 editorial on ranked-choice voting (“Our View: Group looks to 2016 for ranked-choice vote”). I collected almost 700 signatures and had a chance to talk to a great number of people on the subject. The No. 1 substantive reason that people gave for not signing […]
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February 12, 2015

Letter to the editor: ‘Trickle-down’ economics benefits those at the top

Our kind has a long history of things – whether religious, political or socioeconomic – that have successfully helped the ruling few at the expense of the ruled-over many. And here it comes at us once more with the born-again “road to prosperity” ideological delusions of the governors who govern from the extreme right. Those […]
Published
February 11, 2015

Letter to the editor: Clean Elections Initiative will rein in election money

Maine citizens soon will have an opportunity to rein in big money in our elections. This past year, over 1,000 volunteers gathered more than 85,185 signatures in every county in the state to enable the Clean Elections Initiative to be placed on the ballot this November. On Jan. 21, over 200 people gathered in the […]
Published
February 11, 2015

Letter to the editor: LePage’s income tax claims don’t add up to change

Gov. LePage claims that doing away with the income tax will mean more money in all of our pockets. It will mean higher property taxes, as the residents of New Hampshire well know. My property taxes are 22 times higher than my state income tax. Something just doesn’t add up. Kendall Morse Scarborough

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