Letters
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PublishedDecember 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Tap into proposed CMP line from Canada to lower electricity costs
Given one day to respond when I received notice Dec. 8 that my 2019 rate from Electricity Maine was jumping to 12.9 cents per kilowatt-hour, I emailed their customer service address to cancel. The reply? “There was a problem delivering our message. The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect.” Really? So I […]
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PublishedDecember 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Right-to-die laws seem humane, but risk unwanted consequences
To see a loved one in pain is a hard thing to bear. Many think that passing a law to make it legal for that person to die on their own terms is a good thing. But no matter how many safeguards are built into any right-to-die laws, in time a person not covered by […]
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PublishedDecember 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Beauty pageants should focus more on natural-looking women
I watched the 2018 Miss Universe pageant Sunday night just to see if anything about pageants has changed. The only thing I saw that had changed was the host, Steve Harvey: He is now sporting a beard and it looked like he wore no socks. Everything else in the pageant was the same. Same type […]
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PublishedDecember 18, 2018
Letter to the editor: Rise up against CMP’s burdensome rate increases
The company is raising rates next year by nearly 7% at a time when it just received a big tax cut under the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins silent on impending climate disaster
Mainers want a senator who faces the crisis and takes a strong stand on behalf of averting the worst of it.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Letter to the editor: Given a choice, I’d opt for rural Mainers’ rule
In his Dec. 2 letter to the editor, Jay Kilbourn of Kennebunk responded to the Nov. 18 letter from Andy and Sara Torbett of Atkinson that charged arrogant southern Maine liberals with imposing ranked-choice voting to weaken the influence of conservative voters in northern and rural Maine. Noting that Bruce Poliquin’s 2,000-vote Election Day margin […]
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Letter to the editor: Any project that cuts emissions helps us all
It is good news that the renewable energy that Hydro-Quebec proposes to send to Massachusetts through Maine is additional clean energy from excess capacity (“Utility: Line will deliver clean form of energy,” Dec. 7, Page A1). This project will help Massachusetts reduce its consumption of fossil fuels. A reduction in carbon pollution caused by fossil […]
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Letter to the editor: To reduce pollution, use tides, nuclear-powered ships
In a Dec. 1 letter, a reader named George Lawson wrote concerning nuclear power and viable options to reduce pollution. One method is to utilize the huge hydro energy power in the Gulf of Maine with the daily 28-foot rise and fall of the tide. An underwater hydro turbine could send electrical power via underwater […]
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Letter to the editor: Changing USM’s name not a smart proposal
Those suggesting a change in name from the University of Southern Maine to the University of Maine-Portland have perhaps not considered the negative impact and unintended consequences such a change would bring. It would be inaccurate and confusing to give the university a Portland-only label when it has campuses in both Portland and Gorham. For […]
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PublishedDecember 16, 2018
Letter to the editor: Concerned about Facebook? Then don’t use it
Stop entering every mundane or private aspect of your lives into this platform.
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