Sen. Susan Collins’ work on the Paycheck Protection Program has been the difference, for nearly all of Maine’s hospitality industry, between survival and eradication. Susan’s responsiveness and quick action to help our businesses created the Paycheck Protection Program bailout program that we all so desperately needed. When it was determined that certain points of the […]
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Letter to the editor: Speak up for your right to vote by mail
I’ve been disturbed about the erosion of our Postal Service as a tool for voter suppression and have mailed an appeal letter today to 11 of the wealthiest people in this country, asking them to help keep our Postal Service up and running: “The United States Postal Service is in serious trouble. Mail all over […]
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Letter to the editor: Threatening mail delivery merits prison time
Regarding the threat to slow down postal delivery: Surely there’s a prison sentence for anyone tampering with our postal system. Is there not? Loretta MacKinnon Yarmouth
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Letter to the editor: Postal slowdown already affecting voting in Maine
A ballot sent by Priority Mail that was supposed to reach South Portland City Hall in two days arrived after the primary. Imagine what will happen in November.
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Letter to the editor: Response to encampment reflects poorly on Portland
Turning away from people who have nowhere to live won’t make them or their problems go away.
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Letter to the editor: City officials should respond to homeless with compassion
The city of Portland broke my heart today. In reading “Organizers winding down homeless encampment at Portland City Hall,” by Staff Writer Matt Byrne (Aug. 6), I was struck by the complexity of the issues on all sides and the lack of compassion and empathy displayed in City Manager Jon Jennings’ response on behalf of […]
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Letter to the editor: Portland officials fail to rein in lawlessness at protest
I wrote to Mayor Kate Snyder to express my dissatisfaction with the way the homeless encampment outside City Hall was addressed or, rather, not addressed. It is well past time to stop pandering to the organizers of and participants in this “protest,” as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. I agree with Police Chief […]
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Letter to the editor: Collins is a principled advocate for Mainers
Recently I’ve seen an ad on TV from an outside group called The Lincoln Project that claims that our senator, Susan Collins, is a “Trump stooge.” As an actual voter from Maine, I know that this claim is ridiculous, and I would like to thank former Maine Senate President Michael Thibodeau for setting the record […]
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Letter to the editor: Time for Portland Water District to grasp risk of pipeline reversal
An extremely unlikely event occurred late last month at the Portland sewage treatment plant, resulting in the accidental discharge of millions of gallons of partially treated sewage into Casco Bay. That was the result of two unlikely events happening at the same time: a power outage and the failure of a backup generator. Then there […]
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Letter to the editor: With new school year ahead, Maine teachers face impossible choice
My husband is a lawyer and teachers are asking for his contact information – and my heart is breaking. They want wills drawn up because they fear for their lives. Like soldiers going off to war, they are preparing for schools opening in the fall. They understand the risk and they are taking precautions to […]