Letters

Published
January 16, 2019

Letter to the editor: Use Portland’s working waterfront to help form balanced economy

Let’s look at Portland’s working-waterfront development moratorium impartially. Essentially, this comes down to prioritizing maritime industry versus hospitality on our shores. But we can’t forget that our urban planning vision plays a huge part in this overall plan. The maritime community needs this space to support their livelihood, and the hospitality sector needs it for […]
Published
January 16, 2019

Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins blindly acquiesces to Mitch McConnell

I am responding to Sen. Susan Collins’ recent statements on the newest crisis, the wall and government shutdown – her responses to which remain consistent with her behavior of these past two years. In 2014, I voted for Collins, my first and last vote for a Republican. She tactfully wears the mantle of “moderate” Republican […]
Published
January 15, 2019

Letter to the editor: South Portland council should keep two public comment periods at meetings

As residents of South Portland and former South Portland city councilors, Tom Blake, Rosemarie De Angelis, Louie Maietta and I have collectively spent thousands of hours in council chambers: as residents speaking to our councilors at the lectern, and as councilors listening to residents as they shared their concerns with us. We appreciate the desire […]
Published
January 15, 2019

Letter to the editor: Listen to Gen. Patton on the wisdom of ‘fixed fortifications’ with walls

Unlike the more sane among us, I can’t help but dwell on this “wall” thing. I’ve heard all the arguments for and against. It gets complicated! Maybe it’s as simple as George Patton said over 70 years ago (he was arguably our best battlefield general). He said: “Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity […]
Published
January 15, 2019

Letter to the editor: Today’s leaders in need of some ancient wisdom on immigrants, wall

In his essay “On the Education of Children,” the 16th-century essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne offers insights applicable to today’s bluster and debate about immigrants and Donald Trump’s wall. First, there’s this: “Obstinacy and contentiousness are low qualities, generally to be found in the meanest minds.” And, shortly thereafter, we find the following: “When […]

Published
January 15, 2019

Letter to the editor: Time for Congress to drop political selfishness and serve country

One thing it could do to try to end the government shutdown: Pass a veto-proof budget for everything but border security, then work out a compromise on that.
Published
January 15, 2019

Letter to the editor: Republicans failing to take initiative on solution to wall debate

My wife and I are rural Maine voters who are not getting our news from either Fox or MSNBC. We have a daughter and son-in-law who are federal employees affected by the shutdown and who have nothing to do with border security. Their work and their paychecks are being needlessly held hostage by the president. […]
Published
January 14, 2019

Letter to the editor: Time for Indigenous mascots is over

The Skowhegan Area High School Indian mascot is a caricature.
Published
January 14, 2019

Letter to the editor: Tavern owners asked to remove misleading plaque

Re: “Building that houses Freeport tavern of ghostly fame goes on the market” (Jan. 6): The Maine State Organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution is in complete agreement with the Freeport Historical Society and other historians in saying that the Jameson Tavern in Freeport is not the “birthplace of Maine.” The plaque placed […]
Published
January 14, 2019

Letter to the editor: Give the Maine CDC regulatory powers

My father died 10 years ago last week, on Jan. 8, 2009, as a result of a hospital-acquired MRSA infection. He was the third senior from Millinocket to contract and die of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community hospital in just a couple of months. My family and I were not alerted to this risk […]

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