Letters
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PublishedNovember 9, 2018
Letter to the editor: Is religion in pro baseball any different from superstitions?
It doesn’t take the watch-every-inning-of-every-game type of Red Sox fan to recognize that many of Boston’s players have repetitive daily “habits” – actions they perform before each at-bat or after pitching a successful inning. Many of them are pretty easy to recall: Before leading off each game, Mookie Betts draws initials in the dirt with […]
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PublishedNovember 9, 2018
Letter to the editor: U.S. played role in why people are fleeing Honduras for our border
I am very concerned about the misleading rhetoric coming from the administration and our media about the Central American people walking toward the U.S. border. Many are fleeing starvation and violence. Few Americans are aware of the role our government has played and continues to play in supporting the overthrow of leaders in these countries, […]
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PublishedNovember 8, 2018
Letter to the editor: Customers, don’t let Verizon despoil marsh with cellphone tower
I want to thank Tony Barclay and Stephanie Smith for their well-written Maine Voices column, “Town of Scarborough to Verizon: Can you hear us now?” (Oct. 29, Page A4). As a longtime customer of Verizon, I feel that I should also have a voice in deciding whether a cellphone tower is placed adjacent to such […]
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PublishedNovember 8, 2018
Letter to the editor: Government fails to protect seniors from plague of robocalls
A recent editorial in the Portland Press Herald regarding robocalls (“Our View: Give phone providers tools to stop robocalls,” Oct. 12) only touched briefly on what these unwanted nuisance calls do to Maine seniors. My wife and I are 86 years of age, and it is not easy to check all these calls from the […]
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PublishedNovember 8, 2018
Letter to the editor: Caring folks of Portland shine in visitors’ time of trouble
On a recent cruise to Portland, my wife, Margo, and I planned an excursion to Kennebunkport, but she fell on the walkway to the buses, and the diagnosis at Mercy Hospital was a fractured nose and a concussion, among many bumps and bruises. Sadly, that ended our cruise, but on a much happier note, we […]
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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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