Letters

Published
August 8, 2013

Letters to the editor: Bill barely touches illegal immigration

There were two recent letters to the editor that made compelling cases for supporting comprehensive immigration reform (“Collins immigration vote helps families,” Aug. 2). The two writers were praising Sen. Susan Collins for her vote for S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act. Such praise is shortsighted and misplaced. The 1,198-page bill, […]
Published
August 7, 2013

Letters to the editor: Postmaster’s in alcohol-delivery haze

So Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wants to deliver alcohol (Business, Aug. 2). Well, he’d better check the definition of “deliver” first. To deliver is to bring or hand over (a letter, parcel or ordered goods) to the proper recipient or address. When the post office can’t even deliver a certified letter to my address and […]
Published
August 6, 2013

Letters to the editor: Non-lethal policy favors the bears

Regarding Matthew Dyer, the Sierra Club hiker attacked while in his tent at 1:30 a.m. July 24 in eastern Canada’s Torngat Mountains when an electric fence failed to stop a polar bear: CBC News reported July 27, “Parks Canada advises visitors of the park to hire an armed Inuit polar bear guard … . Dyer’s […]
Published
August 5, 2013

Letters to the editor: Why stop at killing clean-air rules?

The July 30 article “DEP calls for weakening of Maine smog regulations” really got me thinking. I’d like to pass on to Gov. LePage that he has an excellent opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: He can free industrial polluters from pesky provisions of the federal Clean Air Act, and, at the same time, […]
Published
August 4, 2013

Letters to the editor: Looming hospital closure deplored

St. Andrews Hospital’s impending closure, outlined July 28 (“Boothbay region ‘full of fear’ as hospital closing looms“), deserves comment in this state with many small hospitals. St. Andrews is a special kind of hospital, called a “critical access hospital,” one of 1,340 such small rural hospitals in the U.S. These hospitals were intended to meet […]

Published
August 3, 2013

Letters to the editor: Commuter enjoys the road less traveled

I was a Maine Turnpike Authority “frequent flier” for more than 20 years, commuting from our home in Portland to my job in Lewiston five days a week. When the MTA decided to get greedy (my opinion) and in turn intentionally harm all toll road commuters in Maine by discontinuing the wonderful commuter E-ZPass program, […]
Published
August 2, 2013

Letters to the editor: Collins’ immigration vote helps families

As an immigrant from Burundi and an asylum seeker, I can say that now is the time to enact common-sense immigration reform. We need a system that creates a fair roadmap to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who are eager to contribute to their new community. Many members of the immigrant communities have lived in […]
Published
August 1, 2013

Letters to the editor: Car chase’s outcome has bigger lesson

I appreciated Bill Nemitz’s recent column “Suspect owes her life to Saco officers’ restraint” (July 24), even more for what was unsaid/implied. Imagine that, instead of rushing after Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman had heeded a 911 dispatcher’s request and waited for police to assist him. I can’t speak for Florida’s finest, but if the responding […]
Published
July 31, 2013

Letters to the editor: Environmentalists silent on wind threat

It is interesting that after more than a century of damming our rivers for hydropower, we are now restoring these rivers. The removal of the Veazie dam is just one example of the efforts new being made so fish can once again swim upstream to spawn. More than a century ago, when these dams were […]
Published
July 30, 2013

Letters to the editor: Unneeded rules limit blood donations

As a regular blood donor for more than 30 years, and having known Brian Hodges for several years, I read with interest your July 13 story regarding policies that restrict blood donations from gays (“Gay man’s Portland blood donation fails again”). I could not help but be reminded of past policies restricting transfusions among races. […]

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