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Published
February 20, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 20, 2011Who should offer health coverage?

For all the sound and fury generated by America’s debate of health care, it is amazing how murky the basic facts have become. The two pieces in the Sunday Telegram of Feb. 6 titled “Health or wealth?” and “Getting medical help boils down to justice” are welcome efforts to cut through the smoke and mirrors. […]
Published
February 19, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 19, 2011Teachers need cost-of-living raises

I am not a state employee or teacher, yet I know and have worked with many teachers and state employees. Gov. LePage’s proposed freeze on state employee/teacher cost of living allowances (COLA) is bad enough. What’s most alarming is the proposal to reduce the COLA cap from 4 percent to 2 percent — a significant […]
Published
February 18, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 18, 2011Will farmers bet on horses?

I was in a local farm supply store recently to purchase some bird seed. On the way out I noticed spring seed was in. Upon seeing the bags, I couldn’t help but wonder how many farmers who raise hay and grain for the standard-bred industry are brave enough to gamble that kind of money on […]
Published
February 17, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 17, 2011: Whoopie pies face house divided

I was startled and confounded by a quote I read in an AP story (printed Jan. 31 in your paper) about the debate over a bill to designate the whoopie pie as Maine’s official state dessert. In the story, “University of Maine food and nutrition professor emerita Katherine Musgrave tried to convince listeners that whoopies […]
Published
February 17, 2011

More letters to the editor, Feb. 17, 2011: What’s ‘toxic’ about business environment?

“Time to deal with Maine’s toxic business environment,” read the headline on a Republican lawmaker’s column on Feb. 8. I am curious to know how Press Herald readers have interpreted this double entendre. The author of the column, Rep. Jonathan McKane of Newcastle, points out that, “(Maine’s) rivers and land were little more than dumping […]

Published
February 16, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 16, 2011Unemployment stats aren’t rosy

Don’t you just love it? The “official” unemployment rate has pretty much remained constant over the past year at about 9 percent to 9.5 percent. But, during that time, we’ve also been told that the policies of the Obama administration have created between about 250,000 and 350,000 jobs each month, or about 3.5 million or […]
Published
February 15, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 15, 2011Why won’t lawmakers leave us alone?

Late for work? Don’t forget to brush all the snow off your car or truck. And I mean all the snow. Rep. Jane Knapp, R-Gorham, has introduced a bill (L.D. 283) that could slap you and me with a $500 fine for driving around with snow on our vehicles. And it doesn’t stop there. A […]
Published
February 14, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 14, 2011Riverside an irreplaceable city asset

The Press Herald's support for privatizing Riverside Golf Course is shortsighted and, paradoxically, elitist.<br><br> For generations, the municipal course has provided an affordable opportunity for kids to learn the game of golf and develop what for many became a lifelong passion for the game.
Published
February 13, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 13, 2011Telegram’s May Craig recalled

I was pleased to read in Richard Connor’s Jan. 30 column that MaineToday Media has hired Jonathan Riskind to become the paper’s Washington bureau chief, and that Connor cited May Craig, who served in that position for 50 years as Washington correspondent for the Guy Gannet Newspapers. She distinguished herself at White House press conferences […]
Published
February 12, 2011

Letters to the editor, Feb. 12, 2011No one’s said ‘yes’ to Peaks secession

Portland’s legislators are considering a bill that I and others believe would: 1. Create an exemption for Peaks Island to bypass the established statutory process for secession, which requires collecting a petition signed by at least half of the registered island voters on the island at this time — something which secessionists haven’t been able […]

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