letter to the editor

Published
March 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Portland’s unused assets could benefit needy

While businesses are closed during the outbreak, hotel rooms could house the homeless, and 'cafeteria-sized kitchens' could be used as 'sterilization stations.'
Published
March 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Don’t put ‘life as we know it’ on hold indefinitely

My Uber driver, Justin, had a stuffed animal, a sloth, wrapped around the gear stick of his car. “Someone gave it to me as a gift, and I didn’t know what to do with it, so I put it there. People comment on it all the time,” the young man informed me. For him, life […]
Published
March 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Pandemic the result of climate crisis

It is my considered opinion that the current pandemic sweeping our country is the inevitable result of the climate crisis that is sweeping the world. In particular, I would point readers to the groundbreaking work of science journalist Laurie Garrett in the wake of her time at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her 1994 […]
Published
March 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Building community in troubling times

I received an email from a dear friend in Switzerland telling about the challenges they are facing to maintain their sense of community as they hunker down to defeat COVID-19. What struck me most was that everyone in all communities across the country, pause and ring their bells at 7 each night to recognize, honor […]
Published
March 24, 2020

Letter to the editor: Nemitz overlooks crisis’ real heroes

Support staff who have to report to quiet law offices are at much lower risk of infection than supermarket employees, who deal with hundreds of customers a day.

Published
March 24, 2020

Letter to the editor: Why isn’t virus taken seriously? Look to the media

Re: the Press Herald’s March 17 editorial (“Our View: Action needed to slow virus’ rapid spread”), in which the Editorial Board bemoans the fact that some are not taking the coronavirus threat seriously: Conspicuously absent was any mention of the mainstream media’s own culpability in this matter. In today’s world, virtually any story of moderate […]
Published
March 24, 2020

Births
Published
March 24, 2020

Letter to the editor: Voice your opinions, but don’t try to read minds

Re: “Another View: The left uses climate alarms to beat up the right” (March 22, Page D2): I have a request: Can we please stop bashing either right or left and write not sarcastic guest editorials but reasoned opinions? When it comes to climate change, scientific studies are available to all of us over the […]
Published
March 24, 2020

Events
Published
March 24, 2020

Letter to the editor: Virus crackdown deprives us of our constitutional freedoms

I’m pretty sure that when the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights, they didn’t say: “None of this counts if there is a sickness going around.” (And believe me, they knew what deadly disease was.) In 1866 the Supreme Court ruled that emergencies do not give the government supraconstitutional powers to violate the rights […]

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