Portland’s Parkside neighborhood is one of the most affordable in the city, and, as a renter there, I’m lucky to live in an apartment I can afford. Strong rent control protects tenants like me from rapidly rising rents. Question A puts that at risk. If it passes, Question A would exempt an estimated 4,300 apartments […]
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Letter to the editor: Holding out for Sen. Collins to do something about Tuberville
A few months ago, I asked Sen. Susan Collins, using her online contact page, what she will do about Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on approving military promotions reflecting his objection to using funds to transport military personnel from where abortion is not permitted to states where abortion remains legal. Sen. Collins did not indicate that […]
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Letter to the editor: Let reason on gun control prevail
Isn’t it time to enforce red flag and other reasonable gun laws?
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Letter to the editor: Positive action on guns does not have to take years
I’m writing in the hopes that we can channel the horrific news from Lewiston into positive action. I am also writing this as someone who grew up hunting and fishing with my father. I am reminded of the Port Arthur Massacre, which occurred in Australia in 1996. Within 12 days of that event, Prime Minister […]
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Letter to the editor: Condolences from Christchurch, New Zealand
I am really saddened for the people of Maine as I read of the dreadful shootings in their state. My late partner and I were lucky to spend a week in that beautiful part of the world in 2016. This same tragedy occurred as we here in Christchurch are holding a long overdue inquest into […]
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Letter to the editor: Sad and scared, let’s look for the helpers
I am hurting. I know I am not alone. We must do what we know to do today, resist reaching for what won’t help: brownie sundaes, 24/7 TV, too many details. Ground ourselves, find love, surround ourselves with it. People, animals, nature – even if we just look out the window. I am staying in […]
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Letter to the editor: Enough thoughts and prayers. Do something
Now, I am mad as hell and I don’t want to take this. I don’t care about nuance.
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Letter to the editor: Voters won’t allow a repeat of House speaker chaos
I write this letter as a lifelong Republican, expressing my embarrassment and dissatisfaction with the behavior of the Republicans in the United States Congress. The world is at crisis, both Israel and Ukraine are in the dire need of our support financially and otherwise. Our country has become paralyzed by the inaction of the Republicans […]
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Letter to the editor: Republicans’ spectacular failure must not be forgotten
Our House of Representatives is in disorder.
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Letter to the editor: Juniper Ridge landfill is an accident waiting to happen
In 2022, the state passed L.D. 1639, which closed a longstanding loophole in state trash law that allowed out of state trash to be combined with Maine trash at waste processing facilities and then disposed of in Maine landfills. State law was intended to disallow out of state trash to end up in landfills, but […]