Scarborough has experienced a major disruption, now building to a crisis, in recent months as five of its hotels opened their rooms to homeless people Portland could no longer serve. The hotels are reimbursed by Opportunity Alliance, a federal program. To no one’s surprise the town soon began to feel the impact. Although issues such […]
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Letter to the Editor: Lawmaker backs Sartoris for DA
My experience as a lawmaker is that we are too often governed by unspoken policies reflecting the limited perspectives of the historically powerful. One result is the imminent loss of reproductive freedoms, long sought by conservatives, which will devastate the lives and livelihoods of the poor and powerless. To fight back, we must elect courageous […]
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Letter to the editor: Don’t be fooled by Collins’ gun control grandstanding
She waited 10 years after Sandy Hook to advocate firearm safety legislation and backed justices who will expand gun rights.
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Letter to the editor: Resist efforts to hollow out UMaine System campuses
I read with deep sadness the coverage by the Franklin Journal’s Kay Neufeld of the hollowing out of the humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington (May 22). Of course, the astonishing incompetency of the upper leadership, as well as its cruelty, is nothing new to students, faculty and staff at the University of […]
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Letter to the editor: How to handle an epidemic of guns
We are in the midst of an epidemic. An epidemic of guns. Every day there is death or injury because of guns. And what does the federal government do about it? Nothing! What do we do about it? We hold vigils, say prayers and offer condolences. Do they help? No! Seventy percent of the American […]
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Another View: Criticism of UMS chancellor misplaced
The system’s board of trustees needs to be more vocal about the agenda it wants the CEO to pursue.
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Letter to the editor: UMF cuts deprive Maine students of liberal arts education
I am writing in shock and dismay after reading about the termination of a sizable portion of the University of Maine at Farmington humanities staff. I chair an education foundation in the town of Brooksville. A significant number of students to whom we grant scholarships attend the University of Maine System. I am also a […]
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Letter to the editor: Auburn housing editorial left out some key facts
In the editorial “Our View: Auburn leads in housing development” in the May 22 edition of the Telegram, the editorial board failed to mention the petition drive among Auburn citizens to stop the insanity of Mayor Jason Levesque’s master plan for the city. Ask yourself if you would like to wake up to a pizza […]
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Letter to the editor: Our country should be better than this
Will someone please tell me: What is the “magic” number of random deaths we are trying to reach in this country? The senseless killings (subway shootings in New York; shootings in Buffalo, California and, most recently, Texas) have become our own macabre “calendar of death.” As a nation, we already lead the world in random […]
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Letter to the editor: Gun law debate should focus on ‘a well regulated militia’
Almost entirely missing from current discussion of the Second Amendment are the words “well regulated militia.” Why is this? They could not be more prominent in the amendment! If the purpose of the Second Amendment was the protection and perpetuation of well regulated militias in the new republic, then it has failed miserably. Where are […]