Letters

Published
June 28, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 28, 2010Day-surgery centers not hotbeds of infection

We read with disappointment “Infections run rampant at same-day surgery centers” published in The Portland Press Herald on June 9. While the sensationalized title implies that infection rates are “rampant” in outpatient centers, the article contains no infection rate data to support that claim. Instead, the article is a description of the U.S. Department of […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 27, 2010Time to help teens quit smoking

It was frustrating to read in the June 20 Maine Sunday Telegram that Maine’s teen smoking rate is on the rise after years of decline. Joe Richards, who started smoking when he was 16, was quoted as telling his 10-year-old sister to “never start smoking.” Joe says he is never going to quit because he […]
Published
June 26, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 26, 2010Stimulus funds would boost Maine jobs

Our two senators ignored both The Press Herald’s well-considered plea for a continuation of federal stimulus spending and the importance to Mainers of the services that must be cut in the absence of the state’s $84 million share of the bill they opposed. In doing so, they once again chose to hew to the Republican […]
Published
June 26, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 26, 2010 Columnist’s attack on GOP only lacked one thing: Accuracy

Leigh Donaldson’s recent column, “Republicans now the party of ‘no’ on any kind of social progress,” is in roughly equal parts careless, blatantly false and insulting. Donaldson boosts his complaints about Republicans by quoting liberally from Arun Gupta, the left’s latest trendy guru, whose sweeping assertions on social and economic issues are often little more […]
Published
June 24, 2010

More Letters to the Editor, June 24

Toy soldier hat hardly threatening The Tioque School administration (in Coventry, R.I.) strives to keep kids safe and avert potential terrorism. Students cannot bring weapons to school. Violators face swift discipline. Recently, David Morales’ second-grade class was assigned a project making hats. David glued some of his small, plastic toy soldiers onto a camouflage baseball […]

Published
June 24, 2010

Letters to the Editor, June 24, 2010

Comments on Gulf oil spill continue to flow strongly President Obama gave the first Oval Office speech of his presidency on the Gulf oil crisis, echoing growing sentiment around the country that oil companies like BP must pay for the mess they create. He also reaffirmed the need for a new national climate and clean […]
Published
June 24, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 25, 2010Peppermint Park the pride of East Bayside

I was very pleased to see such beautiful pictures of the newly designed and refurbished Peppermint Park in the paper on June 10. However, some of the text accompanying the photos was incorrect (and was corrected the next day). To re-emphasize the facts, Peppermint Park is located in East Bayside — not on Munjoy Hill […]
Published
June 23, 2010

Letters to the editor:Opioids belong in pharmacies

The letter from Nicholas Karahalios of Falmouth titled by the newspaper as “Move narcotics out of the pharmacies” is unfortunate in that it is full of many misconceptions and prejudices. While crime exists against pharmacies, is it really more prevalent than against, say, convenience stores, or is it perception? Morphine and other opioids are not […]
Published
June 22, 2010

Letters to the editor:It’s too hard to vote at City Hall

One of citizenship’s great rights and privileges is the right to vote. As an immigrant and refugee instructor at Southern Maine Community College, I teach about our Constitution and attend every naturalization ceremony of my students, showing support and emphasizing responsibility. This month, I took a brand-new citizen to vote. She had worked late, so […]
Published
June 21, 2010

Letters to the editor, June 21, 2010Bill would spur new-home sales

The economy has shown a great deal of improvement in recent months, but we have much further to go before it can safely be said that things have returned to normal. The state of the housing industry is a case in point. Builders may be having a somewhat easier time selling homes now that unemployment […]