Letters
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PublishedNovember 8, 2018
Letter to the editor: Let’s try experiment to help planet – slash meat dishes at local restaurants
With the climate changing, kids starving in Yemen and wide-scale food shortages predicted, Portland chefs could set an example with menus that are 80 percent vegetarian.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: Police chief, Treasury Office are serving the public good
On Nov. 2, I had contact with two departments of our city government – the Treasury Office and the Police Department – and both offices were so helpful and made my requests easy to process. Police Chief Vern Malloch has helped our neighborhood repeatedly with ways to reduce speeders so our streets are safer. His […]
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PublishedNovember 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: Cadet nurses merit veteran status
Women who sacrificed and tended to the wounded during World War II have yet to earn the designation.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: We can’t rely on climate-change action from the top down
Last week’s Judge Frank M. Coffin Lecture, given at the University of Maine School of Law by John Cruden, was a great lesson in America’s history of environmental law. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Cruden negotiated multibillion-dollar settlements for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Volkswagen violations of the Clean […]
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PublishedNovember 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: A Veterans Day thank-you to those who protect us
To mark the coming Veterans Day holiday, I would like to thank intelligence officers, law enforcement, political and postal employees throughout our nation for their service during these stressful times. Their jobs, as well as the jobs of military employees, have become even harder because of the rash of bomb threats and mailings. You all […]
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PublishedNovember 7, 2018
Letter to the editor: Trump’s actions on border run counter to Lady Liberty’s message
After reading a recent article about President Trump closing the border between the U.S. and Mexico (“Trump to announce border crackdown Tuesday,” Oct. 26), it strikes me that the Statue of Liberty must be weeping. What a denial of that admirable aspect of what our country stood for! William J. Leffler II Kennebunkport
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PublishedNovember 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Climate change is not a political issue, but we can differ on what to do about it
The scientific studies that show that humans are causing global temperatures to rise, oceans to swell, weather patterns to change, species to migrate and pollutants to clog our air are not debatable. There is global consensus among scientists that humans are causing the atmospheric climate and our ecosystems to change. You do not have to […]
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PublishedNovember 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: We vote as a community for brighter future, not just as individuals
Over the years, I’ve come to see voting differently. While voting may be an expression of an individual’s hopes and fears, a voter is not an island unto themselves, so to speak. Every vote matters because our votes collectively have far-reaching consequences that affect more than one person. Yet why do we see voting merely […]
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PublishedNovember 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Choosing someone for their beliefs, even if they’re unlikely to win, is not wasting your vote
When the political parties force low-polling candidates out of races through intimidation, you have to wonder where our free-election system has gone.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2018
Letter to the editor: Shame on those who used synagogue shooting to push a political narrative
Sadly, the usual suspects used the memorial service for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims to politicize the atrocity, by blaming the current White House administration for creating the atmosphere that led to the senseless, violent act. Comments were made regarding the administration’s alleged rhetoric and stance on immigration. All inaccurate. In my view, the Trump […]
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