letter to the editor

Published
January 27, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Even good behaviors can be ‘insufferable’
Published
January 26, 2020

Letter to the editor: Deciding not to vaccinate is a win for Big Pharma

One way to “Reject Big Pharma” is the opposite of the vote promoted by the current crop of roadside signs. Growing up in the 1950s through the 1970s, I received all required vaccines for everything from measles and mumps to the swine flu. I even looked forward to the sugar cube vaccine for polio. Those […]
Published
January 26, 2020

Letter to the editor: Pausing Ukraine aid was wise decision by Trump

The defense of President Trump against the flimsy partisan impeachment charges made against him has not nearly been forceful enough. The impeachment has focused on (a) President Trump’s motivation to ask Ukraine to investigate the Bidens’ activities with Burisma and (b) whether he paused military aid to get a promise of an announcement of an […]
Published
January 26, 2020

Letter to the editor: Bernie Sanders is no moderate

Support for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his vision of a socialist utopia requires some combination of naivety, fantasy, ignorance about history and economics, and a susceptibility to illusion. In a recent column (Jan. 12), Greg Kesich suggests that voters who have moderate goals should support Sanders. But there is nothing moderate about Bernie Sanders […]
Published
January 26, 2020

Letter to the editor: During trial, Collins should emulate other species’ altruism

Scholars and children alike can articulate the traits of narcissism that Donald Trump wears proudly: exaggerated sense of self-importance, entitlement, exaggeration of personal achievement, pattern of taking advantage of others and inability or unwillingness to consider the needs of others. And yet what is really terrifying is how Trump’s modeling and leadership have now evoked […]

Published
January 26, 2020

Letter to the editor: High bills not always a CMP issue

The PUC's findings 'may mean that some consumers do have real problems with excessive electricity usage.'
Published
January 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Greater economic justice would improve all Mainers’ lives

Thank you to the Editorial Board for bringing attention to rising rates of “deaths of despair” – deaths from opioid overdose, suicide, alcohol and a range of diseases associated with obesity – in their Jan. 20 editorial. They cite two recent research studies and draw the conclusion that “the health of Americans is tied to […]
Published
January 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Collins shouldn’t blame Democrats for evidence delay

I am deeply distressed with Sen. Susan Collins’ reaction to the explosive documents from Lev Parnas (an associate of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney), which have just emerged to see light of day. If Sen. Collins wants a full and fair trial in the Senate, why would she not want to demand to see […]
Published
January 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Bigoted character doesn’t speak for ‘Olive, Again’ author

I am a proud Franco American. My original family name, Plourde, was changed by my great-grandfather or the census takers. His direct ancestor, Rene Plourde, was one of the first farmer peasants to come to Quebec in the 1690s and there is a monument to him in St. Cyr/Traverse in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France. On my […]
Published
January 25, 2020

Letter to the editor: Don’t reconfigure Portland elementary schools

Educating students in pre-K through second grade separately from third- through fifth-graders will cause stress for teachers, students and families.

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