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March 4, 2014

Letter to the editor: Cutting carbon dioxide must be a global effort

Those people who have a boat know that if one has two holes in their boat, both have be fixed or soon their boat will sink because the other hole was not fixed. If CO2 is causing the Earth to get hot, then the whole world has work together to fix the CO2 problem. By […]
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March 4, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bill gives Great Northern needed source of revenue

Maine has a strong tradition of rivers powering our paper mills. In today’s extremely competitive market for paper products, many mills rely on hydropower for more than making paper. They sell it to the New England grid when peak prices are paid while idling machines for maintenance. Years ago, our Legislature passed a special law […]
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March 4, 2014

Letter to the editor: Read Across America Day should be an ongoing event

The annual Read Across America Day and celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday has been extra special for Portland. This year, we also celebrate that Portland is home to Maine’s 2014 Teacher of the Year, Karen MacDonald, and that Portland is the first city in northern New England to join the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, a […]
Published
March 3, 2014

Letter to the editor: Legal appeal of Portland’s ‘midtown’ project far from misguided

The lead editorial in the Press Herald of Feb. 21 claims that “critics of Portland’s ‘midtown’ misread appeals process” by contesting the Planning Board’s approvals of the massive development. On the contrary, appeals of misguided approvals like this one are precisely what Rule 80B of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure was designed for. Essentially, […]
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March 3, 2014

Letter to the editor: ‘Religious rights’ bill bad for present, future

The recent defeat of the “religious rights” bill in Augusta was appropriate, since it is in accord with the Equal Rights Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which already protects people from arbitrary discrimination. That the vote was strictly along party lines was no surprise, since the Republican Party is an active supporter of conservative […]

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March 3, 2014

Letter to the editor: MaineCare expansion would add to budget woes

For months last year, we heard about the state’s hospital debt and Gov. LePage pushing state lawmakers to pass his plan to pay it off. Democrats had used the hospitals as their personal credit card to pay for past Medicaid expansions and run up a $500 million tab for welfare debt. It’s unbelievable to me […]
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March 3, 2014

Letter to the editor: Mining rules leave Maine vulnerable

As a Maine resident, I am deeply concerned about L.D. 1772, the proposed metallic mineral mining rules being considered by the Maine Legislature. I have lived much of my life and all of my youth in mining country in Chile and Peru. I have lived among people who have been affected by the contamination caused […]
Published
March 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Groups’ support for Bingham wind project overstated

We (Kenneth D. Kimball from the Appalachian Mountain Club, Ron Tipton from Appalachian Trail Conservancy and myself) write to correct misinformation in a recent news report regarding the Bingham wind project, which incorrectly stated that Appalachian Trail organizations now support that project in return for future land conservation (“Maine wind project wins support of conservation […]
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March 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Peaceful intervention urged on behalf of South Sudan

War is not the answer. Democracy, human rights, peace and justice, equality, reconciliation, unity, development and freedom for all South Sudanese people are the only permanent peaceful resolutions to the current South Sudan tribal conflicts. They have claimed thousands of lives of innocent civilians and forced out thousands as refugees. Innocent South Sudanese civilians have […]
Published
March 2, 2014

Letter to the editor: Manufacturers should be required to list phthalates

Midwinter, 2014, well into the 21st century. The ills of the previous century are following us into the future. In 1935, DuPont changed the way Americans viewed the role of business in society by launching their “Better Things for Better Living … Through Chemistry” advertising campaign. According to DuPont’s advertising director, the goal was not […]

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