I was disappointed with Greg Kearney’s view in his CMP cartoon (Nov. 9). I understand the anti-corporation feel many have with big electric or big oil, but distilling it down to a couple of guys working on a pole, in a bucket loader (trying to get your electricity back)? Not cool. These people are your […]
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Letter to the Editor: Don’t cut down trees for solar arrays
The article about the proposed solar farm in Topsham hammers home the lack of holistic approaches of solar farms in Maine and the world. Any building not in tree shade should have solar panels on the [flat] rooftops because that real estate is already developed with great potential to site PV panels, while fallow farmland […]
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Letter to the Editor: Child welfare workers need better training
I grew up and lived in Maine for 35 years. From 2000-2002, I worked for Maine’s Child Death & Serious Injury Review Panel. Today, I am an academic, a national expert on children who die from abuse or neglect. I have testified before a Congressional commission, published a book and dozens of academic papers, and […]
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Letter to the editor: Thoughtless crowds cause senseless concert deaths
In 1978, I was generously provided free tickets, while homeless, to a KISS-Aerosmith concert at The Seattle Center’s auditorium in, well, Seattle. While awaiting entry in the front of the line, I started hearing excitement. The doors must have finally opened. It was first-come seating, and the crowd surged forward and happily started forcing its […]
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Letter to the editor: Editorial recognizes need for societal support of parents
Re: “Our View: Reforming child protection just part of the answer” (Oct. 31): Thank you for your recent editorial acknowledging that the shortcomings in Maine’s child welfare system aren’t simply the fault of overworked caseworkers and an underresourced agency. The welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Parenting done well is the toughest job any of […]
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Letter to the editor: Women missing from story on Maine public artists
The unfair and puzzling omission will only worsen an existing gender-based pay gap.
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Letter to the editor: Images offer trip back to 1970s Portland
Re: “Portland street photographer’s book of negatives a picture of nostalgia” (Nov. 8, Page A1): John Duncan’s photographs evoked my memories of the 1970s, when I first moved to Maine and lived across from the skating pond on Deering Oaks. As a pool player and pizza lover, I am also acquainted with the unnamed establishment […]
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Letter to the editor: Insurance rates should reflect vaccination status
There appears to be no doubt that people who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are stressing our health care systems and driving up the cost of such services. Health and life insurers are also taking hits as these people increasingly use such benefits. Isn’t it time that unvaccinated people pay more for their medical and life […]
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Letter to the editor: Roe could be linked to current worker shortage
There are many factors at work, but could the fact that there are 62 million Americans who have never seen the light of day because of legalized abortion since 1973 be having an impact on the current lack of workers? Those first victims would be 48 this year. Meredith Kerr North Yarmouth
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Letter to the editor: Maine voters spurn great opportunity by rejecting power line
Mainers, harangued for months by competing interests from afar, chose against our collective long-term best interests while needlessly giving offense to our closest international neighbor (and largest trading partner) and to the commonwealth that spawned Maine and to its many residents who love Maine. Still proud to have been born and raised here, I’m sad […]