We can’t keep troubled people from having access to lethal weapons until we learn how they got and kept them in the first place.
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Letter to the editor: Struggling Mainers should be prioritized above asylum seekers
According to Feeding America, one in seven Maine children suffers from food insecurity. Maine Equal Justice estimates that over 70,000 Mainers (5.3%) live in “deep” or “extreme” poverty – or with an income below 50% of the poverty level. Additionally, over 35,000 Maine children live in poverty – an estimated 14% of the state’s children. […]
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Letter to the editor: Providing safe consumption sites can restore drug users’ humanity
Most Democrats and independents, except for a handful, along with the Bangor Daily News, support safe consumption sites. But there are people in the Bangor City Council, Bangor legislative delegation and the governorship who are opposing or blocking L.D. 1364 – safe consumption sites. Bangor’s state senator made a floor speech in which he stated […]
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Letter to the editor: Immigrant grateful for support of Maine community
I am writing to express our deep gratitude for the help and support the Maine community has given me and my family as an immigrant. Thanks to this wonderful community of Americans, we were able to benefit from dignified and respectful reception, legal and social protection, access to health, education and training, as well as […]
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Letter to the editor: What’s being done for the homeless in South Portland?
I read that the state is planning to pay for a second hotel in South Portland to temporarily house asylum seekers (June 26). Also, an agreement was negotiated where the state would cover the to house the families and individuals at the hotel through June 2024. Consequently, these people will have a roof over their […]
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Letter to the editor: We must not fail to remember D-Day
The ultimate sacrifice made by the Allied troops on June 6, 1944, and the following 30 days allowed us to build the diverse society that we have today.
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Letter to the editor: Now I understand why people become ‘Trumpers’
I’m no fan of Donald Trump in any respect. That aside, Trump has a lot of fans. Again, not me. His fans exist in all income, demographic groups and population classifications. To the pundits and talking heads, this is something that they can’t understand. I’ve become convinced that the pundits and talking heads don’t understand […]
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Letter to the editor: Clean Cooking Support Act represents a valuable opportunity
I commend Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins for introducing new legislation last week that has important implications for air quality around the world. While Maine escaped the worst of the smoke from Canada’s recent wildfires, the headlines from much of the East Coast were a powerful reminder that we can’t take clean air for granted. The […]
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Letter to the editor: Falmouth woman right to keep displaying Pride flags
There are many more important issues that the man who called her to complain could focus on.
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Letter to the editor: Maine indigent defense system needs funding to resolve constitutional crisis
Re: “Maine legislative agenda could chip away at lawsuit’s gripes against indigent defense system” (June 26): Reporter Emily Allen’s excellent coverage of the June 23 hearing before Justice Michaela Murphy omitted a critical point: Unless the necessary funding is allocated by the state to the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, we can expect that […]