It’s both appalling and entirely expected to hear that Long Creek Youth Development Center has become a de facto psychiatric hospital (“Advocates: Legislation should require closure of youth prison,” March 27, Page B1). Since the U.S. started closing state psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s, U.S. jails and prisons have taken their place nationwide. By 2018, […]
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Letter to the editor: Don’t let small group stymie prospects for wind energy in Maine
The placement of additional traps in the path of the preliminary survey boat is an uptick in the conflict between the lobster industry and wind energy. But we’ve seen this impediment to progress before. And it’s been successful. (Dragon Cement was to bring barges to Wiscasset, to be loaded at Mason Station and sent to […]
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Letter to the editor: What will it take to change minds on gun control?
I have been listening to the gun control debate since I was a child, when the first mass campus shooter, Charles Whitman, gunned down 45 people, killing 14, from the Tower at the University of Texas-Austin in 1966. I have been listening since the National Rifle Association voiced support for gun control the next year, […]
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Letter to the editor: Xenophobia mars proposal to overhaul Maine unemployment program
The problems with Maine’s joblessness claims system have to do with ill-advised austerity measures here, not with the actions of workers in India.
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Letter to the editor: Time to get on board with COVID vaccination
Friendly and capable vaccine administration, as well as a post-inoculation treat, sway a reader who’s had a longstanding aversion to needles.
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Letter to the editor: UConn fan appreciates timely news of key game
A year ago, we moved to rural Maine from a more populated part of the state to do what we can to avoid COVID, and it has been one challenge after another to stay abreast of the news. I hate reading the paper electronically, so I know I am part of the problem, but it […]
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Letter to the editor: With Collins rebuke, Aroostook Republican Party shows it’s lost its way
As a former county chairman of the Republican Party, I am horrified by the recent actions taken by the Aroostook County Republican Party to formally censure Sen. Susan Collins for her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. The blanket statements in the resolution do not reflect the values of our party as a whole, […]
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Letter to the editor: To prevent drowning, stimulus money better spent on life vest than tattoos
On March 22, the Press Herald ran a story on Page A1, “Stimulus checks prop up many in moment of need.” On Page A8, where the story continues, a person named Tim Adams, age 23, is quoted as saying that he wanted to use his stimulus check to buy a 1988 Honda motorcycle and to […]
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Letter to the Editor: Local food law would deliver for Maine farms and schools
When we eat local, we do a favor for our health, the planet and the local economy.
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Letter to the Editor: Finnigan’s retirement a loss for Ogunquit
I am saddened that our town manager, Pat Finnigan, has made the decision to retire. In the face of extreme adversity, she has accomplished so much for our town. I agreed with the Select Board when it opined “Pat is a valuable asset.” But that asset has rightfully decided to no longer work without a […]