I am the proud mother of a transgender child and a representative of the PFLAG Portland board. Individually, and as an organization, we raise our voices in opposition to L.D. 926, a discriminatory bill that would prohibit transgender women and girls in Maine from participating in both interscholastic and intramural sports. Denying transgender women and […]
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Letter to the editor: To get Mainers back to work, rebuild unemployment system
The Legislature must provide the means to make the state website easy to navigate and to ensure that weekly claims are paid on time.
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Letter to the editor: Community recovery services should be available throughout Maine
I am a recovery coach working at the DownEast Recovery Support Center. Before I became a recovery coach, I was a member, and before that, I was someone with an addiction. Access to treatment helped me enter recovery, but the recovery community center provided the support, resources and connection that have helped me sustain my […]
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Letter to the editor: Where is Biden’s compassion toward small travelers?
Re: “White House allows journalists inside Texas border tent packed with minors” (March 31, Page A3): How many more pictures do we need to see of children, separated from their parents, in overcrowded pods serving as cells, before we say, “Enough is enough”? I urge President Biden: Let them in. What harm can these small […]
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Letter to the editor: KKK’s Maine history doesn’t discredit today’s chamber, city government
Is it really true that our city manager form of government was foisted upon our forebears by a nefarious plot 100 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan (Maine Voices, March 31)? Let’s look at some actual facts: At the beginning of the 20th century, political progressives began agitating to apply, at the municipal level, […]
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Letter to the editor: Some cleanup efforts are tougher than others
Re: “Biden pooch leaves surprise for White House reporters” (April 1, Page A2): An article in the April 1 paper regarding the Bidens’ dog problems – biting, nipping and the poop-on-the-hallway-floor incidents – stands in contrast to the effects of the former president’s constant assaults on nearly all but his base and the massive amounts […]
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Letter to the editor: Child care expansion needs Portland-area businesses’ support
As co-chairs of Youth & Family Outreach’s Building a Brighter Future child care and affordable-housing expansion project, we agree with Jim Clair’s recent op-ed, “What makes high-quality child care, and why is it so important right now?” (April 1). In a February 2020 Portland Chamber of Commerce and United Way survey, 57 percent of employers […]
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Letter to the editor: Heroes’ role in developing 2 COVID vaccines deserves higher profile
Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian immigrant, considered giving up when her mRNA research kept hitting dead ends. Thankfully, she did not.
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Letter to the editor: Removal of nonmedical vaccine exemption will protect Maine communities
A letter writer who decried a new law’s impact on parental decision-making hasn’t considered what could happen to someone exposed to a disease spread by an unvaccinated child.
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Letter to the editor: Cleary, creator of memorable children’s characters, will be much missed
One of the authors I absolutely loved reading as a child was Beverly Cleary. She had so many memorable books and I remember reading them fondly as a child: everything from “Dear Mr. Henshaw” to “Muggie Maggie” to the Ramona books. She will be sorely missed. Beverly Cleary, RIP. Paul Bacon Hallandale Beach, Fla.