Disagreement about student loan forgiveness shows how Big Government divides us. As President Biden acknowledged, his forgiveness program does not make everyone happy. Not elaborating on the moral hazard or degradation of thrift created by the program, the many arguments the public expresses show how Big Government divides us. Like the disagreements over Paycheck Protection […]
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Letter to the editor: Portland ballot questions stall comprehensive housing reform
Affordable housing is ultimately a structural problem for which there are no quick fixes. Solving it requires comprehensive and coordinated policies that drive steady growth of all types of housing for which there is demand. This includes short-term rentals and hotels. After all, Maine is and will continue to be a major tourist destination. In […]
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Letter to the editor: Limits on Peaks short-term rentals will benefit renters
Vacation home restrictions will open up more places for year-round tenants, helping to ease the current shortage in Portland.
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Letter to the editor: Portland referendums undercut council’s role
I was glad to read that the Enough is Enough group is organizing to try to prevent almost total rule of Portland by referendum (Aug. 25). This was and continues to be fostered by the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The United States has a representative democracy, i.e., we elect persons to […]
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Letter to the editor: Teachers should take steps to halt phone dependency
After reading Liz Shulman’s Aug. 23 Chicago Tribune commentary about student phone dependency (“My students’ relationship with their phones makes me worry about their future”), I am in utter contempt of our supposed education system. This is not teaching, it is warehousing. Impossible to enforce “no phones” in the classroom? Wrong! The only thing entering […]
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Letter to the editor: Free market health care dysfunction at root of medical billing problems
Staff Writer Joe Lawlor did a wonderful job depicting the pain and dysfunction of our American system of health care (“Hidden charges, denied claims,” Aug. 21, Page A1). The stories he tells are compelling and leave little question but that the system is badly broken. But while Lawlor hints at the roots of the problem […]
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Letter to the editor: Student debt cancellation doesn’t solve real problem
The issue isn’t about tax dollars paying off student loans. If federal tax dollars can bail out big business, they can help kids’ futures as well. It’s about repairing economic opportunities stymied by a system that the government broke by starving educational institutions of direct subsidies – thus shifting the absurd systemic cost to participating […]
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Letter to the editor: Augusta must step up for Maine’s indigent defendants
The underfunded system needs the $62 million that the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services has recommended spending.
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Letter to the editor: Catty column a disservice to writer, people of Maine
I am writing in response to the nasty review of Maine in the Aug. 21 New York Post by Cindy Adams. I am not a regular Post reader, so I had to do some research in order to understand the context for such a hateful review of my beloved home state. Cindy Adams is a […]
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Letter to the editor: Billing coverage makes case for publicly financed Maine care system
The Aug. 21 article by Staff Writer Joe Lawlor (“Hidden charges, denied claims,” Page A1) shines a light on how confusing and frustrating medical billing is in this country, and how it affects Maine people. From surprise charges such as “facility fees” and denial of claims, to insurance companies not covering medications or procedures that […]