As a teacher, I can think of no better “teaching moment” for what it means to be an educator than the year that has been 2020. To wish for this year to be over is, therefore, to forget what being a teacher is all about. A recently deceased and former Portland superintendent bore truth to […]
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Letter to the editor: Biden must seek full accounting of Trump administration crimes
The issue of Trump administration crimes is complicated. Some suggest the Biden administration should fully investigate illegalities and prosecute those responsible. After all, U.S. law applies to all, including the president. Historian Heather Cox Richardson suggests that if Richard Nixon had been prosecuted for Watergate, that might have forestalled Iran-Contra and George W. Bush’s invading […]
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Letter to the editor: Prioritize parents for immunization
Otherwise, people who are raising children and work in places where they are exposed to the virus might bring it home to their families.
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Letter to the editor: Don’t blame both parties for voter suppression
I have a problem with Jim Fossel’s column of Dec. 20. I understand that opinion writers get a lot of leeway, as they should. But they should not be allowed to present as fact something that’s just not true. In Sunday’s column, he closes by calling for “both” parties to end efforts to drive down […]
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Letter to the editor: It’s time to stop dissecting Collins’ record
In the Dec. 22 Press Herald, a letter writer (John Kirby) laments Sen. Susan Collins approving each of President Trump’s judicial nominees for the federal court last week, adding that Sen. Angus King opposed most of them. The writer concludes his letter asking if Sen. Collins ever listened to her constituents. Perhaps the writer wasn’t […]
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Letter to the editor: Both economics, humanity support universal health care
I fully concur with letter writer Dr. Thomas McInerney’s plea for universal health care (“Disjointed health care system makes virus’ toll worse,” Dec. 18). But why should pleading be necessary? Isn’t it self-evident that a wealthy country should have a health care system guaranteeing a high level of care to all? Other advanced countries do. […]
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Letter to the editor: Dr. Shah should be in the loop on long-term care inoculations
It’s worrisome that the head of the Maine CDC has said that he is not well versed in pharmacies’ plans to immunize nursing home residents.
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Letter to the editor: Portland students are being shortchanged
A nostalgic editorial overlooks the incongruity of a decision to call 2 recent snow days at a time when high schoolers are getting only 12 hours of class time a week.
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Letter to the editor: Santa Claus welcomed to Maine with ‘flake news’
Tis the season when adequate snow is needed on our rooftops for a certain sleigh to land. Fortunately that snow arrived Friday but reports that Portland got 17 inches while Gorham got 24 inches are simply wrong. The only way Gorham could have piled up more snow than Portland is by massive fraud. Consider these […]
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Letter to the editor: Collins keeps voting to confirm Trump judicial nominees
I am writing to note that a frequent barb against Susan Coliins during the past senatorial election was her very frequent tendency to vote “yea” for almost every Donald Trump-Republican nominee for the federal judiciary. To see if this tendency has survived a rigorous election, I have been carefully checking the weekly Senate votes published […]