Re: “White House allows journalists inside Texas border tent packed with minors” (March 31, Page A3): How many more pictures do we need to see of children, separated from their parents, in overcrowded pods serving as cells, before we say, “Enough is enough”? I urge President Biden: Let them in. What harm can these small […]
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Letter to the editor: KKK’s Maine history doesn’t discredit today’s chamber, city government
Is it really true that our city manager form of government was foisted upon our forebears by a nefarious plot 100 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan (Maine Voices, March 31)? Let’s look at some actual facts: At the beginning of the 20th century, political progressives began agitating to apply, at the municipal level, […]
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Letter to the editor: Some cleanup efforts are tougher than others
Re: “Biden pooch leaves surprise for White House reporters” (April 1, Page A2): An article in the April 1 paper regarding the Bidens’ dog problems – biting, nipping and the poop-on-the-hallway-floor incidents – stands in contrast to the effects of the former president’s constant assaults on nearly all but his base and the massive amounts […]
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Letter to the editor: Child care expansion needs Portland-area businesses’ support
As co-chairs of Youth & Family Outreach’s Building a Brighter Future child care and affordable-housing expansion project, we agree with Jim Clair’s recent op-ed, “What makes high-quality child care, and why is it so important right now?” (April 1). In a February 2020 Portland Chamber of Commerce and United Way survey, 57 percent of employers […]
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Letter to the editor: Heroes’ role in developing 2 COVID vaccines deserves higher profile
Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian immigrant, considered giving up when her mRNA research kept hitting dead ends. Thankfully, she did not.
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Letter to the editor: Removal of nonmedical vaccine exemption will protect Maine communities
A letter writer who decried a new law’s impact on parental decision-making hasn’t considered what could happen to someone exposed to a disease spread by an unvaccinated child.
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Letter to the editor: Cleary, creator of memorable children’s characters, will be much missed
One of the authors I absolutely loved reading as a child was Beverly Cleary. She had so many memorable books and I remember reading them fondly as a child: everything from “Dear Mr. Henshaw” to “Muggie Maggie” to the Ramona books. She will be sorely missed. Beverly Cleary, RIP. Paul Bacon Hallandale Beach, Fla.
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Letter to the editor: Animals on conserved Maine land should be left in peace
Hearings on Land for Maine’s Future bills (L.D. 983 and L.D. 687) are taking place soon. Hidden in the text of both is a kill mandate. This consists of three words – trapping, hunting and fishing – which must be allowed on any land purchased through the program. Remove these three words and we have […]
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Letter to the editor: Anti-vaccine letter shows newspaper’s low bar for publication
Please raise whatever bar you have for letters that get published in your paper a lot higher so letters like Heather Connolly’s objection to L.D. 798, the vaccine law (April 5), ends up on the reject pile. Connolly claims that “more than 10,000 Maine children will be left without any access to ‘public’ education (including […]
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Letter to the Editor: Vaccine law discriminates against religious objectors
With the passing of L.D. 798 into a law, which is scheduled to take effect on Sept. 1, Maine became one of only five states in our nation to enforce government-mandated childhood vaccination for access to K-12 education. The law removed long-standing religious exemptions which previously allowed parents to make personal medical decisions for their […]