Letters
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PublishedJanuary 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 Why is this outdated, dishonoring and undignified role-modeling continuing […]
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2019
Letter to the editor: Ethics 101: End doesn’t justify the means
Where is the Republican Party's moral compass and courage?
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PublishedJanuary 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 […]
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PublishedJanuary 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 […]
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PublishedJanuary 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 […]
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PublishedJanuary 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 […]
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PublishedJanuary 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 […]
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PublishedJanuary 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.
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PublishedJanuary 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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PublishedJanuary 20, 2019
Letter to the editor: No real surprise that Fireball tops liquor sales
What news to see that Fireball whiskey has become No. 1 in statewide liquor sales (Jan. 16, Page C1). One might have guessed by all the empty nips along the roadside. If only it could have been Balvenie. I shudder to think what the top sellers in beer and wine might be. “Welcome to Maine, […]
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