Letters

Published
August 9, 2014

Letter to the editor: Cellphones just one of many distractions

Re: “Maine launches effort to curb distracted driving” (Aug. 5): It’s not only a text or call that could wreck it all. We were stunned to see a woman on Interstate 295 on Tuesday night who seemed not at all distracted by her driving as she looked in the mirror and plucked her chin hairs. […]
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August 9, 2014

Letter to the editor: Border crisis shows need for real immigration reform

Gov. LePage learned on a conference call with the White House that eight unaccompanied immigrant children have been placed in Maine. These are some of the 57,000 unaccompanied children from Central American countries who have streamed across our border into Texas since last October. It is understandable why thousands of unaccompanied children have been streaming […]
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August 9, 2014

Letter to the editor: City blundered ethically in overriding oil sands vote

I and thousands of other voter residents are still trying to figure out what is sadder – what South Portland has done, or how they did it? “How” wins. The total lack of due process, fair, deliberative debate and collaborative decision-making on oil sands is numbing. Where was the fact-finding, where was the inclusiveness of […]
Published
August 9, 2014

Letter to the editor: Should people sue Congress for failing to do its job?

How remarkable that, since there are not enough votes for impeachment proceedings, House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues decided to sue President Obama for allegedly overreaching his presidential authority. Does that mean that citizens can sue Congress – individually or as a whole – for not doing what they were constitutionally elected to […]
Published
August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: World War II losses put current conflict in Gaza in perspective

Those of us who were around in the 1940s should remind the U.S. citizenry of how we treated the Japanese and German citizenry in order to terminate the Second World War. During the last week of July 1943, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force killed 42,600 German civilians and wounded 37,000 […]

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August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Palestinian threat to their own children should be spotlighted

In Kathleen Sutherland’s Aug. 5 guest editorial (“Another View: Threat to Palestinian children demands consideration”), she rightly points out Israel’s threat to Palestinian children but overlooks the Palestinian threat to their own children. So let us focus this conflict to just its effect on children. Ms. Sutherland defends Palestinian tunnels and Palestinian rockets as the […]
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August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Recent letter about ‘Pro-Palestinian’ activists in Portland invites further dialogue

A recent letter (” ‘Pro-Palestinian’ activists in Portland miss their mark,” Aug. 2) presents “facts” to counter “claims.” These invite further dialogue. Hamas fired rockets into Israel, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed little provocation, having leapt to assign blame for the West Bank teens’ disappearance and to call for vengeance against Hamas. Many argue […]
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August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Media reports cloud, misrepresent Israel’s actions in Gaza

Israel’s current bludgeoning of the open-air prison/Gaza Strip has been clouded by misrepresentation and outright lies in the media. • First, the accusation that Hamas started this all by ordering the senseless murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. Israeli police have since determined that no evidence exists showing Hamas gave the order to […]
Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear-referendum backers should make case for letting lobsters live

I’d like to offer some thoughts on the practice of baiting and trapping animals for sport or commerce. Consider how hobbyists or businessmen will go into an animal’s natural habitat and, using baited traps, lure innocent, nonthreatening creatures either to their deaths or to a torturous end after being corralled and kept alive. For lobsters, […]
Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: Thanks to Maine Sens. Collins, King for work to help veterinarians

On Aug. 1, President Obama signed into law the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act, which allows veterinarians to transport medicines classified as “controlled substances.” Maine’s veterinarians would like to thank Sen. Angus King for being an original sponsor of this measure, making sure we are not classified as felons when visiting a farm or making a […]

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