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 […]
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Letter to the Editor: Don’t blame Collins for 2020 campaign tone
There is no doubt that the 2020 Maine Senate race set a record in terms of the money spent and the negative tone. We should all be committed to ensuring this record remains unbroken. Avoiding a repeat of history, however, requires an honest assessment of the past. A recent column, “Public’s bleak view of Congress […]
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Letter to the Editor: Why one nurse voted ‘no’ on Maine Med union
I have been a nurse at Maine Medical Center for 26 years. Today I received my union ballot from the National Labor Relations Board. For a number of reasons, I have voted no. Firstly, I would never leave my patients to participate in a strike. Pro union colleagues tell me nurses’ unions rarely strike. Yet […]
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Letter to the editor: COVID bipartisanship would have been deadly for Mainers
Gov. Mills has kept Maine’s COVID-19 infection and death rates among the very lowest in the country. Her amazing performance puts her in the top tier of world leaders who amassed miraculous records in fighting the pandemic. And Gov. Mills is up for re-election in two years, and there’s plenty of time to tout that […]