Re: “With new owners, ‘Big Indian’ statue to remain in Freeport, for now” (Oct. 8, Page C2): Twice a day I drive past the “Big Indian” statue on Route 1 in Freeport. It might interest the new owner, Eric Dube, to know that I’ve used these moments as conversation starters with my children, and that […]
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Letter to the editor: Global warming and buying Maine-raised meat
Industrial agriculture is linked to rising carbon emissions, but getting our beef, pork and chicken from local farms will ease the impact.
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Letter to the editor: Be a Friend to your local public library
Oct. 17-23 is National Friends of Libraries Week and a good time to show appreciation for your library’s Friends group. Our libraries are better because of all they do, which, in turn, enriches our communities. Each group is tailored to best serve its library, but in Scarborough, among other contributions, the Friends of the Scarborough […]
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Letter to the editor: We must think about who we incarcerate
I once saw a quote, “Jail should be for the people we’re scared of, not the people we’re mad at.” How many people in the Cumberland County Jail are we truly afraid of? And how many are people we only are mad at? Stephen Wellcome Brunswick
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Letter to the editor: Press Herald should stop using plastic delivery bags
There are so many op-eds in and letters to the paper talking about the amount of plastic in our world and the damage it is doing. There are even no more free plastic bags at the grocery. I have been wondering, over the past several days, why the Press Herald continues to deliver the daily […]
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Letter to the editor: Support permanent housing solutions – vote for option A
The COVID pandemic has clearly demonstrated why moving ahead with the building of a 208-bed emergency shelter in Portland is unwise and dangerous. One study (published August 2020 in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine) of five homeless shelters in Rhode Island, the largest of which sheltered 89 people, found that infection control practices were […]
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Letter to the editor: Question 1: One question addresses three issues
While Question 1 to stop New England Clean Energy Connect project has engaged fervent partisans on both sides, the problem is that there are three different issues lumped together, and you can’t vote ‘Yes’ on one without also voting ‘Yes’ on the other two. The first issue is whether to build the line or not. […]
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Letter to the editor: Kathleen Parker data on animal testing misleading
Perhaps the most noteworthy “lesson learned” from COVID-19 is that we should heed the advice of experts when it comes to matters of human health. That’s why we’re surprised by Kathleen Parker’s recent editorial “Time to rethink how we use animals to test pharmaceuticals” (Oct.3). There are significant problems with the data Ms. Parker cites […]
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Letter to the editor: Big Indian honors no one
It represents nothing historically accurate, and misleading portraits can’t celebrate Indigenous culture.
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Letter to the editor: Support the right to food amendment
I am almost 19, a new voter, and I would like to show my support for the right to food constitutional amendment that Mainers will be voting with Question 3. This amendment is just as important as many of the prominent human rights laws in our country’s Constitution; everyone has a right to produce or […]