Letters

Published
October 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Anti-violence dialogue should start with our kids

I am writing in response to your report on Gabrielle Giffords’ recent visit to Portland, headlined “Former U.S. Rep. Giffords: Gun laws fail to protect women” (Oct. 15). To be sure, this is true, but Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck is probably correct as well when he observes, “Domestic violence is really the core of […]
Published
October 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Liberal Bellows would add to the partisan bickering

As the campaign season moves forward and all the chatter fills our TV screens, Mainers should be made aware of something pointed out by The New York Times: Democrat Shenna Bellows, the former lobbyist and current candidate for the U.S. Senate, has been scored the most liberal office-seeker in the entire country. That’s right – […]
Published
October 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Portland’s Ryan Flaherty excels in Orioles’ position

The Major League Baseball post-season has added a great interest in the playoff because “one of our own” is playing for the Orioles. It’s a pleasure to see the boy from Portland, Ryan Flaherty, doing such a great job for the team. James Pickett Portland
Published
October 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Independent Rep. Chipman merits third term in office

I am writing in support of independent Ben Chipman, who has earned a third term as state representative. Ben has legislated in our interest and has proved he is second to none in constituent service. As his city councilor, I hear from him regularly, as his public service follows through to issues affecting residents of […]
Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Include protections for lab mice in research bond

We fear the very word “cancer” and would like to erase the disease from the face of the earth. Although Question 4 on the November ballot does not name the Jackson Laboratory on Mount Desert Island as being the direct beneficiary of the proposed $10 million bond, we know that it is. Many medical advances […]

Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear biologists are too cozy with Maine’s hunting lobby

Like many others, I am outraged at the blatantly partisan role that the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries &Wildlife is playing in the bear referendum, siding, as per usual, with the hunting lobby it consistently supports. It’s one thing to offer “fair comment,” as the law allows; it’s another to blitz the airwaves with uniformed […]
Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Cutler boast proves he’s not really a liberal alternative

For those people who see independent Eliot Cutler as a liberal alternative to Gov. Paul LePage, I reference Pat Callaghan’s interview of Eliot Cutler on WCSH-TV. In this interview, Cutler boasts of having the support of Steve DiMillo. An online search reveals DiMillo’s commentary on The Maine Wire, the Maine Heritage Policy Center news site, […]
Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Those who believe ‘scientific evidence’ on bear baiting should address climate change

I only wish that all those people who want us to accept the “scientiﬁc evidence” to continue bear baiting would step up to the plate and do something about climate change. Frank D’Alessandro Portland
Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Independent Cutler would be proactive leader for Maine

During the past several months, the candidates for governor have presented to us, the voters, their ideas about how they would lead Maine over the next four years. The one candidate who stands out over the others is independent Eliot Cutler. Eliot is a statesman, a visionary, an excellent listener and a man of integrity. […]
Published
October 21, 2014

Letter to the editor: Attorney who worked for Passamaquoddy should be pardoned

I was saddened to read Colin Woodard’s Oct. 11 report (“Don Gellers, counsel to Passamaquoddy tribe, dies in New York at 78”) of the death of Rabbi Tuvia Ben-Shmuel-Yosef, who was known in Maine as Don Gellers, the attorney who first represented the Maine Passamaquoddy Indians in the 1960s. All Mainers should hang their heads […]

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