Letters

Published
January 6, 2020

Letter to the editor: Impeachment is an accusation, not a conviction

It is indeed unfortunate that the Press Herald chose to publish George Szok’s assertions regarding the ongoing impeachment process. First, it is emphatically not the House’s role to pronounce guilt. Impeachment is not literally a legal process, but the closest analogy to the House’s role as that of a grand jury. A grand jury indicts, […]
Published
January 6, 2020

Letter to the editor: Senators should support carbon dividend bill

Global warming is now a crisis, but there is a way you can help both the planet and your budget. HR 763 would place a fee on carbon based fuel ( gas, oil and coal) and return that money directly and equally to every American. A family of four would get about $288 monthly starting […]
Published
January 6, 2020

Letter to the editor: Republican lawmakers live up to their own low expectations

In the past, when I heard a Republican satirically calling some educationally deficient person “Congress material,” I kind of scoffed at his description. After seeing how some of the Republicans acted during the congressional hearings, maybe there is more truth than poetry to some of those comments. Impeachment trials withstanding, if you condone breaking the […]
Published
January 5, 2020

Letter to the editor: The stories of 2019 were worth retelling

The Dec. 29 Sunday Telegram reminded me why I like newspapers. Two sections in particular got me thinking about this – “The decade in Maine sports” and “2019 Photos of the year.” I am an unabashed Glenn Jordan fan and the man can write a lead. For instance, how about this lead for the story […]
Published
January 5, 2020

Letter to the editor: Nuclear holocaust a present danger

I recently watched the HBO series “Chernobyl.” It reminded me of the old sci-fi monster movies I watched as a kid and how frightened I was. But I was never so terrified as when watching those episodes of the Russian nuclear disaster of 1986 when I realized that what actually happened was not a science […]

Published
January 5, 2020

Letter to the editor: Trapping not the only way to manage beavers

Non-lethal tactics can protect property while letting beavers play a vital role in the ecosystem.
Published
January 5, 2020

Letter to the editor: Corporate profits fueled by deficit spending

The Dec. 17 Business section article “U.S. corporations paid 11.3 percent tax rate last year” (Page C1) gave me brain cramps. “The 91 profitable Fortune 500 corporations that paid no federal tax in 2018 earned a combined $101 billion last year,” reported Jeff Stein and Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post. Our debt for this […]
Published
January 5, 2020

Letter to the editor: It’s not just bad habits that lead to disease

William Vaughan’s assertion that illnesses are caused by personal behaviors oversimplifies a complex problem. Our decisions impact our health, but so does our environment. The social determinants of health are increasingly recognized as having a profound impact on a person’s well-being. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, social determinants are factors such as “the conditions […]
Published
January 4, 2020

Letter to the editor: We should use global influence to battle climate change

The U.S. Congress can start by ending fossil fuel subsidies.
Published
January 4, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Sen. Collins’ tax bill vote hurt Maine

She sided with big corporate special interests, instead of Maine small businesses.

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