Letters

Published
January 24, 2019

Letter to the editor: Portland needs comprehensive plan to address homelessness

Without one, there will be a never-ending demand for larger shelters.
Published
January 24, 2019

Letter to the editor: Remove Rosemont land from list of shelter sites

Thank you for publishing the article “Portland officials eye 14 “reasonable’ sites for potential new homeless shelters” (Jan. 22). I cannot speak about the feasibility of all the sites listed, but I strongly disagree with the assessment of the City Council’s Health and Human Services Committee that the Rosemont Fire Station land is a “reasonable” […]
Published
January 24, 2019

Letter to the editor: Voters in Ogunquit should oppose recall

I’ve been living in Ogunquit over 4½ years, having retired after a 40-year career in government and nonprofits and having a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. The Ogunquit recall reminds me of my own experience as an activist, in government, and studying many cases about the process of change in local, […]
Published
January 24, 2019

Letter to the editor: As U.S. faces problems, some answers are in order

Just a few questions: What if we build a $5.7 billion wall and still have an immigration problem? Should we just add the money to the $5 billion needed to save the farmers and write off the entire $10.7 billion? Why doesn’t Rudy Giuliani retire and save himself and the president more humiliation? Why don’t […]
Published
January 24, 2019

Letter to the editor: Maine should leave Union, join Canada

I’ve heard that Canada actually pays its government workers for working. If the self-inflicted, dysfunctional chaos in Washington continues, I think Maine should secede from the Union and beg Canada to take us. “Première Mills” has a nice ring to it. Fred Egan York Harbor

Published
January 23, 2019

Letter to the editor: Federal employees are being held hostage

Until further notice, they're forced to work without pay because of an impasse unrelated to the work they do.
Published
January 23, 2019

Letter to the editor: Let’s call this shutdown what it is – thievery

Simple? Yes, and … outrageous. We pay our taxes, to buy our services. Simply. The person we hire to provide those services – the president (who, as we know, runs the executive branch) – owes us those services. No “ifs,” “ands” or “buts.” Still simple. If the president wants to add another “service” (like a […]
Published
January 23, 2019

Letter to the editor: For Democrats, hatred of Trump comes before love of country

The behavior of the Democratic Party leadership is immoral and nakedly self-serving. Their refusal to fund border security, favored and voted for by a majority of Americans, is disgusting. From the moment that President Trump made the tactical error of saying that he would take responsibility for a shutdown, while attempting with multiple reasonable proposals […]
Published
January 23, 2019

Letter to the editor: CMP doesn’t want you to pull back the curtain

The recent op-ed by Hydro-Quebec’s paid, in-house scientists to try to make their biased case for Central Maine Power’s proposed transmission line (Jan. 15) is exactly the kind of publicity and false transparency that I have come to expect from the company and CMP. As an attorney who has been deeply involved in well over […]
Published
January 23, 2019

Letter to the editor: Senate uninterested in being co-equal branch

President Trump is a schoolyard bully. You do not give in to schoolyard bullies. If he is appeased this time, it will not be long before he shut down the government again to get something else he wants. Congress has compelling reasons for refusing to cave in to the president. First, Congress appropriated more than […]

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