Letters

Published
March 16, 2014

Letter to the editor: Early detection research needed for deadly cancer

Pancreatic cancer is not a well-known disease, but it is the fourth leading cause of death in cancer patients. When the cancer is diagnosed, the victim sometimes has between a couple of hours to a couple of months to live. Yet there is no test to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier. I have been affected by […]
Published
March 16, 2014

Letter to the editor: Green power carbon offsets do nothing to curb polluters

Congratulations to the Telegram for North Cairn’s excellent article of Feb. 16 that dealt with wind power carbon “offsets” – revealing how wind corporations make millions selling offsets to polluting companies so that they may continue polluting (“Landowners cash in on timber they don’t cut”). I agree with a writer who said green energy offsets […]
Published
March 15, 2014

Letter to the editor: Cumberland County Jail security lapses raise questions

For the second time in two years, inmates housed in the maximum-security unit at the Cumberland County Jail have found a way to leave their cells and enter the cells of other inmates for sexual encounters (“Two inmates caught after tryst at Cumberland County Jail,” March 8). While some might look lightly upon this jailhouse […]
Published
March 15, 2014

Letter to the editor: Pitts’ rant on Arizona may ultimately backfire

I’m writing concerning a column titled, “Leonard Pitts: Arizona deserves boycott for its continuing role as state of intolerance” (Feb. 26). What a laugh! Pitts writes: “Simple human decency demands we no longer countenance intolerance in silence.” Yet here we catch him spewing out intolerance toward God, Jesus Christ and Christians. This rant of his […]
Published
March 15, 2014

Letter to the editor: College hoops coverage lacking at a crucial time

For most of the college basketball season, I have been disappointed that you do not print most of the college basketball scores. Generally, I can find only the games played by the top 25 teams. On the other hand, I can easily find the point spreads and odds for most sports events across the country, […]

Published
March 15, 2014

Letter to the editor: DHHS official’s termination justified for shirking day care duties

It is difficult to understand how Wes Uhlman, the Department of Health and Human Services’ child care licensing supervisor, is allowed to continue his employment and not be terminated from the DHHS (“Maine child care licensing supervisor reassigned,” March 9). After about a year-plus of knowledge about abuse that the children allegedly were exposed to […]
Published
March 14, 2014

Letter to the editor: Paper got it wrong on who shut down government

In your editorial of March 8 (“Our Views: Thumbs up, thumbs down: A review of Maine news”), I question your statement that “tea party Republicans shut down the federal government last year to protest the Obama administration’s economic policies.” Who really shut down the government? During the first week of the shutdown, the Republican House […]
Published
March 14, 2014

Letter to the editor: As noise solution for Cape club, ban all high-powered guns

People really have a problem with the Spurwink Gun Club (“Cape Elizabeth council approves gun range ordinance,” March 11). I am a longtime shooter and have been a member of many gun clubs. Unless there is some control, they simply won’t work in a residential neighborhood. I have a perfect solution: The club should simply […]
Published
March 14, 2014

Letter to the editor: Take a closer look at midtown critic

In a March 5 letter to the editor, “Legal appeal of midtown project aims at vision for Portland,” the authors of that letter suggest they are suing the city because they believe the proposed midtown development doesn’t fit into the Bayside Vision and are suing to work “with the city and our community to build […]
Published
March 14, 2014

Letter to the editor: Call for tax-cut referendum is smart strategy by LePage

For decades, the powers that be in the Maine Legislature (mostly Democrats) abdicated their responsibility to make the difficult spending decisions by foisting them upon the voters in the form of bonds. The Legislature knows full well that the voters (mostly uninformed) almost never see a bond proposal they don’t like. The voters never seem […]

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