I am writing as a member of the southern Maine community who is deeply concerned and upset by the construction of the new Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility at 40 Manson Libby Road in Scarborough. In September, members of Congress released a report exposing both egregious conditions in ICE detention centers as well as the […]
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Letter to the editor: Higher value won’t necessarily boost tax bill
Letter writer Samuel Rosenthal (March 12) falls victim to a common misunderstanding about how property tax reassessments work. The goal is fairness, so what is actually being reset is your property’s new valuation relative to all the other new valuations. Following the reassessments, this is done by recalculating the tax rate so that the total […]
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Letter to the editor: Age-order vaccine program made sense
If the most vulnerable are vaccinated first, perhaps it will be safer for schools to loosen restrictions.
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Letter to the editor: Former Rep. Poliquin backs vote suppression
Bruce Poliquin’s opinion piece about restricting voter rights reminds me how glad I am that we no longer hear from him on a daily basis. The elephant in the room is “the big lie.” If there were voter fraud it would warrant an examination of what went wrong and what needs to be fixed. But […]
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Letter to the editor: U.S. defense spending out of proportion
On Feb. 26, USA Today ran a front-page article on our defense mission and spending. In the article, author Kim Hjelmgaard relayed some interesting facts: • The United States currently has an annual defense budget of more than $730 billion. The official Chinese defense budget for 2020 was $178 billion. • The United States has […]
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Letter to the Editor: Too many satellites could obscure the stars
Thousands of commercial satellites will make life more difficult for astronomers, wildlife and star gazers, a reader writes.
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Letter to the Editor: Kathleen Parker column on due process was off the mark
I was disturbed by “Democratic governor puts due process back in vogue,” by syndicated Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker (March 9, Page A11). While I agree with her that Sen. Al Franken was denied due process, it is certainly not the case that accusations against Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas were investigated […]
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Letter to the Editor: Voter suppression is the real threat to democracy
There was no widespread fraud in our last election. There weren’t millions of illegally cast votes. The election was not rigged. There is no evidence to prove any of these claims, only lies, speculation and conspiracy theories. The votes that Donald Trump was seeking to throw out were legitimate votes, and the objections to their […]
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Letter to the Editor: Town should know more about ICE facility
In February 2020, news broke about a federal contract for a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough. After a brief discussion at their meeting on Feb. 19, 2020, Scarborough town councilors determined that they didn’t really have a role to play in the matter – the contract was between a local developer and […]
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Another View: Carbon-free energy requires a mix of sources
In a March 6 commentary, Sarah Leighton of Sierra Club Maine advocated for the electrification of our heating systems to reduce the use of fossil fuel, which is fine. However, this is the same Sierra Club chapter that is working side by side with the fossil fuel industry to stop New England Clean Energy Connect, […]