Letters

Published
November 18, 2018

Letter to the editor: Good luck to Mills, good riddance to LePage

Kudos to Editorial Page Editor Greg Kesich for his well-written and truthful Nov. 11 commentary, “The View From Here: Paul LePage no fan of Maine.” I could not agree with him more. I have been telling my husband the same things Greg wrote in his column. (My husband is a fan of Gov. LePage. I […]
Published
November 18, 2018

Letter to the editor: Who brings an infant along on a hunting trip?

Has the world gone completely mad? Hunter Christine Barnes, shown carrying her infant son on opening day in an article in the Outdoors section of the Nov. 11 Maine Sunday Telegram (“Starting out young,” Page C8), brings the question to the fore. How can anyone justify exposing a 7-month-old baby to the inherent dangers of […]
Published
November 18, 2018

Letter to the editor: With election over, Maine needs development agenda that deals with climate change

With the midterms behind us, we are presented with an opportunity to set out a new agenda for social and economic development in Maine, in a time and place specifically affected by climate change. This is a moment to adapt and invent new systems that will capitalize on Maine’s wealth of natural and human resources, […]
Published
November 17, 2018

Letter to the editor: The tide is turning, and the view is all blue

I’ve avoided writing about last week’s election results, but waking Monday to hear that Democratic Senator-elect Krysten Sinema will fill Jeff Flake’s seat in Arizona – gleefully motivates me. The gracious concession of Sinema’s Republican opponent Martha McSally (alongside her gallant golden retriever) was a vivid illustration of the way political discourse should be – […]
Published
November 17, 2018

Letter to the editor: Medicaid expansion brings bad ripple effect

Soon millions more dollars in Medicaid expansion spending will be added to the Maine budget without any new money coming in. It means either cutting spending on existing budget items or raising taxes. Cutting the existing small state agencies is not enough to pay for this new spending. The more that people have to pay […]

Published
November 17, 2018

Letter to the editor: The long view: CMP power line proposal hurts Maine

I’m opposing the proposed 145-mile Central Maine Power line going over the western mountains region and the Kennebec River. I’ve been a Maine Guide since 1987 and hold designations in whitewater, recreation and sea kayaking. Now in my 20th year as an adventure-based counselor, I’ve led countless wilderness adventures. Personally, as a Mainer, I’ve enjoyed […]
Published
November 17, 2018

Letter to the editor: Beware of overusing antibiotics

As Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov. 12-18) concludes, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention would like to educate you on the importance of this topic and how you can protect yourself. Antibiotic resistance – one of the world’s most serious health threats – happens when bacteria change in response to an antibiotic medication and […]
Published
November 17, 2018

Letter to the editor: Gov.-elect Mills, time to bring back the labor mural

As a supporter of Gov.-elect Maine Janet Mills, I am writing with a public request that she please, with all possible speed, restore Judy Taylor’s labor-history mural to its rightful place in the Maine Department of Labor building. I can’t think of a more symbolic way that she could indicate her determination to restore the […]
Published
November 16, 2018

Letter to the editor: Liberals shouldn’t apologize for their compassion and empathy

I’m going to take the opportunity of Veterans Day to confront the constant cliché argument that liberals exploit tragedy for political gain. Apparently there are a few radical conservatives who do not understand that compassion and empathy are the organic instincts that produce progressive liberals. Those conservatives seem to have abandoned the “bleeding heart” stereotype […]
Published
November 16, 2018

Letter to the editor: Cold-hearted column on health care was full of repulsive ideas

My letter is in response to the Nov. 10 Maine Voices column written by William Vaughan Jr. on the subject of health care. Mr. Vaughan focuses his attentions primarily on dry logic in his article, and I was at first tempted to respond in kind, but I feel it is more pressing to address the […]

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