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March 27, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 27, 2010

Right-wing comments inflammatory An Associated Press article in the Press Herald asks, “Has political discourse reached an all-time low?” I propose the general answer is no, but the conservative right has. Unfortunately, many on the right are getting their information from those who benefit most from instilling panic and fear. Talk-radio hosts and their wannabes […]
Published
March 26, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 26, 2010

Stories on Israel flawed from any angle After many years of hearing and reading about a bias against Israel in the mainstream media, I thought I’d see how my hometown newspaper stacks up against this charge. With Israel in the news of late due to the tension between the Obama administration and the Israeli government […]
Published
March 25, 2010

Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010

People approved of pot dispensaries, let’s have them As a person who requires medicinal marijuana in order to live a productive life, I am completely outraged with the government here in Maine! I worked extremely hard back in the late ’90s to get our initial medicinal marijuana law passed. This law, in short, gave […]
Published
March 25, 2010

More Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010

Blowing hot and cold on offshore wind I want to point out an oversight in Staff Writer Tux Turkel’s otherwise fine March 12 article, “Oil dealers: Offshore wind plan a mistake.” Turkel states that 8,000 megawatts (MW) of wind is the equivalent of six Seabrook nuclear plants. In fact, it is about the equivalent of […]
Published
March 24, 2010

Letters to the editor, March 24, 2010Waynflete students right to take stand

Kudos to the Waynflete students who wrote letters to the editor expressing their opinions on wind power. Although my views differ on some of the points expressed, I applaud them for their reasoned arguments and their admirable level of interest in public policy and civic engagement (“Students’ opinions get blasted on the Web,” March 14). […]

Published
March 23, 2010

Letters to the editor, March 23, 2010Health care deserves Senate support

It is time for Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to support the administration’s promotion of significant health care reform. The companion bill coming to the Senate is not perfect, but is an effective move in the right direction. Plan opponents say the present effort should be scrapped and replaced by small, “step-by-step” measures. However, […]
Published
March 22, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 22, 2010

Abortion no solution to problems Nancy A. Foss of the Abortion Access Project called people like me “radical right-to-lifers” (Letters, March 10) because we disagree with the abundance of abortions. Does she consider herself a “radical right-to-deather?” Her maudlin adoration of abortion doctors is disturbing. Ms. Foss must be in her own version of […]
Published
March 21, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 21, 2010

Blowing hot and cold on wind There are legitimate complaints about wind power, but grossly untrue statements by overzealous critics like Jonathan Carter (Maine Voices: “Wind power comes at great cost,” Feb. 28) do little to reveal them. He says the 48-tower Highland Mountains project in western Maine proposed by former Gov. Angus King […]
Published
March 20, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 20, 2010

Many ways exist to address public schools’ problems I would like to add another perspective to the Press Herald editorial (“New high school plan needs more explanation,” Feb. 22) and Charles Lawton’s column (“Maine must measure its wants,” Feb. 7) calling for increased high school graduation rates. They both correctly state the career and […]
Published
March 20, 2010

More letters to the editor: March 20, 2010

Politicians won’t rein in spending Sens. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Chellie Pingree continue to vote for more and more spending. I’m sure their intentions are good. However, the big question many of us have is, who will pay these massive debts? Are there any taxpayers who understand who will pay? […]

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