Letters

Published
January 22, 2019

Letter to the editor: Shallow, shameless president offers bad deal for ‘Dreamers’

It says a lot about the shallowness and the “throw others under the bus” mentality of President Trump and his administration to think that “Dreamers” would consider trading a measly three-year extension of their “privilege” to reside, study and work in the country they grew up in for the Trump trade-off of the potential deportation […]
Published
January 22, 2019

Letter to the editor: Gestures of Kansas City football fans offensive to Native Americans

The night before we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, our country was exposed to the accepted racist practice in Kansas City of fans doing the tomahawk chop, disrespectfully beating on a drum, dressing as they think Native Americans dress and displaying many other racist gestures. Why is this outdated, dishonoring and undignified role-modeling continuing […]
Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: Ethics 101: End doesn’t justify the means

Where is the Republican Party's moral compass and courage?
Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: Newspaper carrier goes above and beyond for customers

We agree with the gentleman from Freeport, Michael Thibodeau, who wrote the Jan. 9 letter in the Portland Press Herald about the newspaper carrier Jesse from Brunswick. Jesse certainly needs to be recognized for his outstanding service. If the paper doesn’t land where he thinks we will see it, he gets out of his car […]
Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: Message of welcome: ‘Maine: Some State’

Visitors to Maine should indeed enjoy a message of pure welcome as they enter our state. It’s wonderful that we will no longer be presenting ourselves as merely “open for business,” which always struck me as a half-snarl. We’re so much more than that. But in trying to figure out what to say instead, we […]

Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: U.S. immigration system is indeed broken

Our immigration system is indeed broken. Activist judges and our own representatives and senators are not representing our best interests when it comes to illegal immigration. Our current social programs act like a huge vacuum, pulling illegal immigrants from outside of the U.S. who are directly responsible for lost lives related to illegal immigrant lawbreakers […]
Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: Federal employees getting no respect

I am disturbed by the shutdown and the disrespect implicit in federal employees not receiving paychecks. I am additionally very troubled by the description of workers as either “essential” or “nonessential.” It is clear that workers perform their responsibilities for a reason, and the term “nonessential” is demeaning and doesn’t reflect the fact that the […]
Published
January 21, 2019

Letter to the editor: Wesley McNair poem a source of inspiration

Thank you for publishing Wesley McNair’s poem “The Song for the Unsung,” which he recently read at the inauguration ceremony for our new governor, Janet Mills (Maine Sunday Telegram, Jan. 13, Page E3). In this day and age, McNair’s beautiful and ever-so-sensitive poem about faith, hope and persistence “in spite of the odds” paves the […]
Published
January 20, 2019

Letter to the editor: Fish farms could fill a critical need in Maine

The reluctance to embrace aquaculture is at odds with the state's core values.
Published
January 20, 2019

Letter to the editor: Church has dealt with its sex assault problem

The narrative that there is an ongoing widespread and unaddressed rape culture in the Catholic Church in the United States is false. This is not today’s Catholic Church. In 2002, Catholic bishops passed the Dallas Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in the wake of revelations by The Boston Globe about sexual […]

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