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Published
December 4, 2010

More letters to the editor, Dec. 4, 2010Crumpled cruiser is too distracting

I don’t understand why the South Portland Police Department is trying to prove a point by placing a “smashed-up” cruiser and blinking sign on Broadway at the entrance to the Casco Bay Bridge, one of the city’s busiest intersections. On my way to work one morning my car almost ended up looking like the display. […]
Published
December 3, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 3, 2010Medicare shortfall very serious

Thank you for the recent article highlighting resources available to help seniors make good decisions about their health insurance. Unfortunately, unless Congress acts quickly, seniors may also need help finding doctors. Due to a flawed Medicare payment formula that Congress created a decade ago, seniors may soon find it hard to get the health care […]
Published
December 2, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 2, 2010Fee in lieu of parking good move

The Maine Alliance for Sustainable Transportation would like to thank the Portland City Council for recently voting to adopt a “fee-in-lieu-of-parking” ordinance that will allow developers in Portland to choose to contribute to a “sustainable transportation fund” instead of building parking lots or garages on their site. The proposal came out of the Peninsula Transit […]
Published
December 2, 2010

More letters to the editor, Dec. 2, 2010Readers still needled by tree

I have enjoyed reading columns by Bill Nemitz for many years. I find him to be well-informed, clever and entertaining. I learn something or I’m amused by reading his work. I read his article about the Christmas tree in Monument Square and found it amusing; a tongue-in-check discussion of people who can’t say the word […]
Published
December 1, 2010

Letters to the edtor, Dec. 1, 2010Ways to solve our fiscal problems

Ron Bancroft described a series of debt reduction proposals in his Nov. 23 column (“Cutting deficit will mean hard decisions that can’t be put off”), and suggested that we all needed to stop whining and find a solution. Here’s a suggestion that’s much simpler, and in the end cheaper for all of us, than implementing […]

Published
November 30, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 30, 2010Searching for answers in security

I was dismayed by Ruth Marcus’ column “TSA’s airport screenings done for our own good” (Nov. 24). The choice between an irradiated strip search or a genital grope is not much of a choice. It is most certainly a violation of our Fourth Amendment right “to be secure in (our) persons, houses, papers, and effects, […]
Published
November 26, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 26, 2010On sacrifice and being left in the cold

An old Maine adage advises “Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax that man behind the tree.” It appears that no one wants to be found behind the tree. We have all enjoyed the benefit of lower taxes for the past 10 years, creating deficits that have now become the cause c?bre of every politician […]
Published
November 25, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 25, 2010Readers agree: It’s a Christmas tree

In response to Bill Nemitz’s Nov. 19 column regarding the Monument Square “pine tree” — I am sick and tired of all this political correctness. Call it what it is. A dog is a dog, a cat is a cat, and this is a Christmas tree! It is a symbol of the Christian holiday of […]
Published
November 24, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 24, 2010’Public art’ matter of taste – and money

I will be sad to see “Tracing the Fore” leave its space in the Old Port. It was a smart piece of art and green space. We will have one fewer interesting thing to view and to talk about when it is gone. Kathryn Buxton Portland I would suggest to the Portland Public Art […]
Published
November 23, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 23, 2010Blowing cold and hot on wind energy

Barbara Durkin’s “Another View” on wind power (Nov. 15) provided much-needed factual information about the faulty premise upon which wind power is built, and as someone who is not an expert on the topic, I applaud her viewpoint. She convinced me. So imagine my surprise when I read the very next day that your editorial […]

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