Letters

Published
August 27, 2014

Letter to the editor: King’s backing of Cutler ‘good news’

Sen. Angus King’s announcement of support for Eliot Cutler’s campaign for governor was good news for Maine people. Over the years, I’ve been privileged to know and work with both men. They are both intelligent, well educated and have been successful in private businesses as well as government service. They both have a history of […]
Published
August 27, 2014

Letter to the editor: Riverview has the ability  to regain its certification

I have great confidence in Riverview Psychiatric Center in Winthrop to address the issues causing loss of their Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services certification. Above politics, it is an essential aspect of a larger system which is one of the better in the country. Communities, families and those directly served have to have faith […]
Published
August 27, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear hunters should return to a system that worked well

Regarding bear baiting: One letter writer opined that state biologists and wardens have, over decades, shown that baiting bruin is the best way to control the bear population (“Let Maine’s biologists, wardens manage state’s bear population,” Aug. 14). I beg to differ. I’m 96 and remember what it was like before the present despicable, cold-blooded […]
Published
August 27, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear-baiting didn’t mean hunting in old England

Letter writer Ray Andresen (Aug. 22) and the caption writer who stated “Readers agree with Gov. Percival Baxter, who opposed bear baiting” have confused the use of food by present-day hunters with the old English custom of bear-baiting. “Bear-baiting is a blood sport involving the worrying or tormenting (baiting) of bears.” (Wikipedia) Until it was […]
Published
August 26, 2014

Letter to the editor: Extinction of Islamic State must be every nation’s fight

The recent barbaric act committed by the evil called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the execution of journalist Jim Foley must galvanize all freedom-loving people in the world to take political and military action to pursue this evilness to its final extinction. That cancer called ISIL has no place on this […]

Published
August 26, 2014

Letter to the editor: Searsport dredging debate doesn’t go deep

The headline of your story on dredging near Searsport states that the debate is jobs versus the environment. But the story actually frames the debate as industry versus industry. There is the wood products industry that hopes for larger ships to enter the port so wood products shipped by train to the port and then […]
Published
August 26, 2014

Letter to the editor: Cutler’s independent voice is just what Maine needs

There’s a bitter and destructive battle going on in Maine, but not between voters. It’s between party candidates – and it doesn’t end when they’re elected. It’s like having bank tellers so busy fighting between themselves that they forget to deposit your paycheck. Can you think of one thing Augusta has accomplished in the last […]
Published
August 26, 2014

Letter to the editor: Late Rep. McGowan mixed passion with the practical

I had the great privilege of serving with Rep. Paul McGowan in the Maine House of Representatives for the past two years, where we both also served on the Environment and Natural Resources Committee. His death is a heavy loss to his legislative colleagues, constituents, family and friends. In tributes to his public service, Paul […]
Published
August 25, 2014

Letter to the editor: Missile defense plan makes no sense

I applaud your well-reasoned editorial against basing strategic missile defenses in Maine (“Our View: There’s no place in Maine for missile defense site,” Aug. 20). Although I agree that non-military considerations are the principal factors behind congressional interest in East Coast siting, I would add an additional “military” reason for skepticism about the concept: There […]
Published
August 25, 2014

Letter to editor: Important voice missing in story on Great Northern

More than 2 1/2 pages of the Maine Sunday Telegram were devoted to the decline and fall of the Great Northern Paper Co. without a single mention of Great Northern’s most prominent former employee, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud. When elected to the Maine Legislature in 1980, Rep. Michaud was employed as a mill worker at the […]

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