Maine Medical Center has been the source of superb medical care for me in the Portland area for a quarter of a century. The cardiac physicians, techs, nurses and staff are and have been exceptional. Adherence to the Hippocratic oath coupled with the urgent need for financial stability has now created havoc with the admission […]
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Letter to the Editor: Explosive growth is bad for Wells
Wells, the fastest growing town in York County! I don’t believe this is anything to boast about! There are three or four developers who are making sure they grab up any parcel of land they can squeeze houses or condos onto. I don’t see the benefit to the town. This continued growth won’t bring our […]
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Letter to the Editor: Manchin’s critique makes no sense
Isn’t Joe Manchin a hoot? He doesn’t want to extend the child tax credit because it would go to “bad people” who would use it for drugs. Then, demonstrating his lack of logic, he want to extend it for 10 years instead of one. Lot more drugs, Joe. (Studies show the money is overwhelmingly being […]
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Letter to the Editor: LePage offers the absence of leadership
During a recent gubernatorial campaign event, Paul LePage discussed how he’d manage Maine’s COVID-19 response. In my view, his plans lack vision and would unwittingly pour fuel on the pandemic. LePage wants to end Maine’s successful vaccine mandate for health care workers. Yet this mandate, launched by Gov. Mills and supported by Maine Center for […]
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Letter to the editor: Maine legislators should expand Good Samaritan protections
As a person in long-term recovery and an advocate in the recovery movement, I feel more needs to be done to stop the drug overdose crisis. One thing we can do is support the expansion of the state’s Good Samaritan law. This law currently protects a person who has overdosed and a person who calls […]
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Letter to the editor: Sen. King can’t justify support for Pentagon spending
We’re out of Afghanistan ($4 billion a month), but the defense appropriations bill that Sen. Angus King supported allows increases even beyond what President Biden requested. Sen. Joe Manchin and friends nickel and dime programs that would have a much more positive effect upon our security than missiles and bombs, but the defense appropriations bill […]
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Letter to the editor: Only citizens should be allowed to vote
I can remember how excited I was when I turned 21 and was eligible to vote. I went to Portland City Hall and signed up as soon as possible. I have voted in every election since then. To me and my husband, Carroll, being able to vote in local, state and national elections is a […]
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Letter to the editor: Puzzle out of step with actor’s gender identity
I am an avid fan of the crossword puzzle and also the parent of a child who is transgender. While doing the Dec. 19 Sunday crossword puzzle by Frank Longo on Page H4, I was dismayed to see the clue for 96 down: “Actress Page.” The answer was “Ellen,” but I would expect a newspaper […]
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Letter to the editor: Mask mandates usher in clarity, forestall debate
‘It would be nicer if people just did the right thing,’ but often they don’t unless they have to.
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Letter to the editor: Backing Build Back Better could burnish Collins’ legacy
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Sen. Susan Collins, in a moment of courage and conscience, voted in favor of the Build Back Better Act? By supporting the child tax credit and other reforms in the bill, she would singlehandedly be lowering the child poverty rate. Sen. Collins has voted against her party in the past […]