The cause of the hospital staffing crisis is the system hospitals use to staff only the bare minimum of nurses on each shift. Without legislation for nurse-to-patient ratios, patient care is unsafe, and nurses will not keep participating in it. I am constantly agonizing over being a part of a system inflicting harm by design, […]
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Letter to the editor: Grateful for clarity on problems with tribal sovereignty
Many thanks to Orlando Delogu for such a clear and convincing explanation of the problems with Maine tribes achieving full sovereignty (“Commentary: In state with dispersed tribal land, ‘full sovereignty’ seems unworkable,” May 12). I wonder why Gov. Mills does not offer this explanation herself? The lack of transparency about her consultations with tribal leaders is […]
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Letter to the editor: Ignore anti-NECEC red herrings
I have always felt that good ideas are good ideas, regardless of who proposes them. That is how I feel about the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor. It will provide less expensive clean electricity and reduce our carbon footprint. Does it bother me that electricity will go to Massachusetts? No. Why should it? Does […]
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Letter to the editor: Disheartened by community solar saga
A recent article makes clear why cheaper solar electricity is still on hold, even though Mainers want it.
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Letter to the editor: Without child care, Maine’s economy stalls
In my 34 years in the field of child care, I have never experienced the instability that is compromising the foundation of our industry like it is today. Child care workers are disappearing. We are a staff of 18 and, since June 2020, 16 employees have resigned, throwing us into a constant and chaotic hiring […]
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Letter to the editor: Will Maine legislators listen to those opposed to abortion bill?
When they vote on L.D. 1619, which would allow abortion in the third trimester, they should remember that those who spoke up against it outnumbered its supporters 10 to 1.
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Letter to the editor: No sense in trying to wish addiction away
The fact is that too many Mainers are dying of overdoses. We can’t wish addiction away, but we can keep people alive. I urge people to support L.D. 1159, An Act to Establish a Two-Year Pilot Project Regarding Harm Reduction Health Centers to provide overdose prevention, safer equipment supplies and emergency response where it is […]
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Letter to the editor: American flag will stay low until we regulate guns
Sadly, as I drive around southern Maine, I see the American flag flown at half-staff, as a sign of mourning for lives lost in another mass shooting. Because of the weekly carnage, our beloved stars and stripes are never proudly displayed. Until our elected representatives muster the courage to create reasonable gun laws that would […]
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Letter to the editor: Maine urgently needs harm reduction centers
People who use drugs don’t deserve to die. Opiates don’t give second chances, so the old adage of letting them reach rock bottom doesn’t apply – it means sudden, irreversible death. Last year, 716 Mainers slipped away from us without their second chances. They didn’t have time to work on the underlying reasons they used […]
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Letter to the editor: We have turned our backs on mental health services – and those who need them
For years, the mentally ill were institutionalized. They weren’t in encampments, they weren’t on street corners begging, so as a society we didn’t have to confront the wreckage that untreated serious mental illness inflicts on both the individual and the community. But things changed, and for a short time in the 1960s and early 1970s, […]