A consumer-owned power utility is like a public school, library or park. Local elected officials make sure that the needs of the utility’s owners – you and me, citizens and consumers – are met. This close connection between community and utility is what makes publicly owned power companies so much more generous than their investor-owned […]
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Letter to the editor: Rohrabacher evades truth regarding role in insurrection
The former California congressman, now a Mainer, got very close to the Capitol for someone who says he marched Jan. 6 but but didn’t take part in the attack.
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Letter to the editor: Lobsters aren’t equipped to feel pain
The arthropod responds reflexively to irritating stimuli but lacks the ‘sensory, cognitive and emotional’ capacity to experience hurt.
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Letter to the editor: Mainers could regret state’s lottery mania
The state of Maine in suffering from lottery mania. This $1 million vaccination lottery is money misspent. The same $1 million could be split into 100 x $10,000 or, even better, 200 x $5,000. I have seen a few customers who received money. A few months after purchasing a few guitars and other items, plus […]
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Letter to the editor: Columnist encourages plutocratic excess
In response to syndicated Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle’s op-ed on tax laws (“Think twice about altering tax laws to soak the rich,” June 11, Page A13): Leo Tolstoy asked this question: How much land does a man need? The ultimate answer was: Oh, about 6 feet by 6 feet by 3 feet. I ask: […]
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Letter to the editor: Portland councilor reaffirms support for charter commissioner
When I say that I support Nasreen Sheikh-Yousef’s right to speak her mind, I mean just that. I will not tell her what to say, how and where to say it, tell her what she means or what she meant to say. And yet, many in our city – including private citizens, public officials and […]
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Letter to the editor: Ranked-choice blocked votes in Charter Commission election
No matter what its supporters say, the truth is that the system works by shutting out minority-party candidates.
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Letter to the editor: Maine flavored-tobacco ban will stop deadly addiction cycle
As the child of a smoker, I know the destruction that smoking can cause. My father began smoking menthol cigarettes at 11 years old. He stopped when he experienced his first bout of laryngeal cancer in 1974, when I was 3 years old. In 1996, my dad informed me he had a cancer recurrence, which […]
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Letter to the editor: Voter apathy in Portland betrays fellow Americans’ sacrifices
Civil and voting rights leader Vernon Dahmer once said, “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.” Judging by the recent results of the June 8 elections, 86 percent of the registered voters in Portland don’t count. Mr. Dahmer felt so strongly about the right to vote that he paid for it with his life after […]
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Letter to the editor: Charter commissioner’s disruptive rhetoric should be decried
Like many Portlanders, I was shocked by the comments of newly elected Charter Commissioner Nasreen Sheikh-Yousef. As the only Hispanic city councilor in recent memory, and the son of an English language learner, I’m offended that someone would so cheapen the struggles of those threatened by actual white supremacists, especially to attack a city manager […]