I am grateful. It seems to me that Gov. Mills and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah, M.D., are the only two adults in the room who believe in science, consider the data and then take decisive action to protect Maine’s vulnerable medical population while others dither away mindlessly. The mandate […]
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Letter to the editor: Maine EMS workers urged to get vaccinated
Someone who has not been inoculated and is dealing with a patient could be putting that person at risk of illness.
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Letter to the editor: Mandate forcing me to leave my job
I am a certified nursing assistant of 16 years in a long-term care unit at Damariscotta. I care for the residents I serve. We are their second families that they see and depend on every day. To be told I can no longer do my job is heartbreaking. I feel horrible this has to happen. […]
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Letter to the editor: Roux plan for B&M site is just too much
The proposed glass buildings overwhelm the site and obscure its natural beauty.
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Letter to the editor: Don’t typecast anti-abortion activists
A letter to the editor reminded me how often people conflate opposition to abortion with indifference for a child born to a struggling mother. (“Abortion foes’ concerns about babies are limited” Sept. 2, 2021). Yet there are agencies, supported by both taxes and donations, that are available to help a woman who has committed herself […]
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Letter to the Editor: Ogunquit COVID task force members resign
Despite multiple requests, the Ogunquit Select Board failed to convene its COVID-19 Task Force during the surge of the Delta variant, York County’s designation by the CDC as a high-risk location and the presence of detectable levels of the virus in our wastewater, especially as our population swelled from 1,300 to a summer high of […]
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Letter to the Editor: No one is free to put others at risk
Over the past many months, we have heard people talk a lot about people’s individual rights being violated by mask and vaccine mandates. This is a free country. Therefor people say, “if I’m not worried about getting a form of the COVID virus that is my business and nobody else’s.” I heard Cam Newton say […]
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Letter to the Editor: Federal action needed on climate change
The recent International Panel on Climate Change report clearly states that carbon dioxide, resulting from fossil fuels, is the main driver of climate change. While outright denialism regarding climate change has faded, formidable forces remain that would obstruct action to find solutions to the crisis. Fossil fuel corporations – and the politicians they own – […]
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Letter to the editor: Maine’s child care system at a breaking point
I appreciated your recent article reporting that 10 percent of Maine child care centers closed during the pandemic. Most of us without young children probably don’t appreciate the gravity of the situation. Maine’s child care system is at a breaking point. This is significantly impacting Maine’s kids, families, communities, employers and the economy. The COVID-19 […]
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Letter to the editor: COVID vaccine is useless, and Nemitz should know it
I purchase your paper every Sunday so I can stay abreast of the goings on in southern Maine, or what we like to call northern Massachusetts. Starting with Bill Nemitz’s column (“COVID-19 is highly contagious. So is stupidity,” Aug. 22, 2021), I found his big lie already in the third paragraph: According to today’s CDC […]