As a primary care physician in Maine, I have had a number of uninsured patients and have seen the direct results of this lack – delayed care, unfilled medication prescriptions, treatment delayed until too late, etc. The current pandemic makes it even more imperative that healthcare coverage be available to everyone. Susan Collins has, once again, […]
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Letter: Candidate Anne Carney is competent, backs tank farm cleanup
We are supporting Anne Carney for the District 29 Senate seat. We first got to know Anne when she ran for the Maine State House. She demonstrated quiet competence and an ability to work with others. Once elected, Anne regularly attended public events such as City Council meetings in South Portland. She was there to […]
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Letter: Look at Collins’ voting record and tell her goodbye
To paraphrase Mr. Lincoln, you can fool some of the people half the time and half the people some of the time, but you can’t fool a majority of the people all of the time. Up to now, Susan Collins has been doing the latter, but her time is running out. The senator has been […]
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Letter: Support Carney and her ‘forward-thinking’ bill
My favorite law this year is Anne Carney’s LD 2033: “An Act To Ensure Proper Closure of Oil Terminal Facilities.” This forward-looking bill understands we are transitioning away from petroleum toward a clean energy future. It does not seek to shut down petroleum-oriented businesses; it simply accepts that change is inevitable and that out-of-state investors […]
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Letter: Falmouth Food Pantry extends heartfelt thanks
It is heartwarming to see how our community has come together to help each other during this terribly sad pandemic. The physical location of the Falmouth Food Pantry temporarily closed on March 15, and since then food has been purchased at retail prices because it is no longer possible to pick up and sort foods […]
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Letter: Vote Mentzinger for House District 43
Money is a scourge in politics, so I am so glad I have the opportunity this year to vote for a Clean Election candidate for the State House. Bob Mentzinger has been going door to door in the dark and cold all winter, collecting small-dollar donations to fund his campaign. By doing this, he is […]
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Letter: Crozier is a leader and a hero, Trump is not
Now more than ever we need heroes. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier spoke up, stood up and did the right thing. He is a hero. Crozier was relieved of command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt on April 2 after sounding the alarm that more than 150 of the crew’s 4,800 sailors were infected with COVID-19. “We […]
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Letter: Why does Collins keep giving Trump a pass?
Why does Susan Collins keep making excuses for Trump? “I think in the beginning there were times when he was speaking about what he hoped would happen rather than relying on the data and information of his experts.” She excused Trump’s ineptitude when people desperately needed correct, up-to-date scientific information. Lives are at stake! Collins […]
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Letter: Have we all lost our moral compass?
The U.S. has seen almost 10,000 deaths to date from the COVID-19 virus (250,000-plus sick), the virus the president – Donald Trump – called a hoax. A virus that would simply disappear and was perpetrated by the Democratic Party in the first place, per the president. Not to worry! That hoax that has crippled our […]
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Letter: Individual rights should be limited at this time
I agree with the premise presented by John Balentine in his column in the April 3 edition of The Forecaster (“Viral reaction ‘at the point of absurdity’”), that government rarely cedes individual rights back to individuals once assumed by the government. However, a lesson I learned in high school clearly explains why individual rights are, […]