It’s disappointing that 11 Maine Senate Democrats voted against three common-sense firearm safety bills.
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Letter to the editor: Andrew Zarro for mayor of Portland
Portland’s motto: Resurgam, “I shall rise again,” has proven itself appropriate time and again over the 237 years since incorporation. While today’s pressing issues aren’t as dire as the devastation caused by wars, fires and embargos, the city is indeed struggling. So I’m glad to see District 4 City Council member Andrew Zarro put his […]
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Letter to the editor: Design questions to be asked of the Portland Museum of Art
Building owners are usually reluctant trying new construction materials unless they are adventurous or very knowledgeable. Mark Bessire, a director of the Portland Museum of Art, seems intent on promoting mass timber, a relatively new technology in the U.S., for the proposed PMA addition (“Commentary: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine,” June 16). […]
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Letter to the editor: Consider gun background checks as suicide-prevention tool
In his July 2 Maine Sunday Telegram commentary, state Sen. Matt Harrington proclaimed gun control advocates “hysterical” in their response to Joseph Eaton’s alleged murder of four people in Bowdoin. That response proposed a universal background check law for gun purchases. Harrington’s argument ran: Eaton stole the guns he used, so such a policy wouldn’t […]
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Letter to the editor: Susan Collins must condemn Donald Trump
His alleged mishandling of classified documents is an egregious offense, and the senior member of – and only Republican in – Maine’s congressional delegation should muster the bravery to denounce it.
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Letter to the editor: Passage of Maine abortion bill fuels moral ambiguity
Self-reliance (“my body, my decision”), self-respect (with the privacy between myself and my physician) and self-indulgence (promiscuity without consequences). The exploitation of the “cult of self” has finally reached its zenith with the passage of L.D. 1619. In Government 101, we learn that law is necessary to curb the freedoms (excesses, really) of humanity. The […]
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Letter to the editor: To have amended Maine abortion bill would have weakened it
During the debate on and passage of L.D. 1619, some legislators suggested the bill should restrict who can access abortion care later in pregnancy. Restricting abortion access at any point in time is detrimental to the individual seeking that care. People have abortions later in pregnancy for many different reasons: fetal anomalies, health risks, changes […]
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Letter to the editor: Gun control as ‘political gain’? Think again
Sen. Matt Harrington, my state senator, made the case on these pages for a “wait and see” attitude toward individual acts of gun violence, like the mass shooting in April in Bowdoin and Yarmouth (“Commentary: Drumbeat of gun control outrage is hysterical, reckless,” July 2). According to Sen. Harrington, no laws would have prevented the crime […]
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Letter to the editor: Name a law that does not get broken
A Maine Republican legislator is making the perfect the enemy of the good when he suggests that gun control laws are useless because some people steal the firearms they use to commit crimes.
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Letter to the editor: Unity residents rightly concerned about loose plan for dorms
We are quite offended by the condescending remarks from Portland (“In Unity, idea to house asylum seekers in dorms divides a town,” July 2). Yes, the community dealt with 600 students for years, but the students had structure and purpose. I ask: What structure will be set up for immigrants? Will they be educated in […]