Encouraging day trippers ignores the need for social distancing on Casco Bay Lines ferries and makes it hard for those who live there to return home.
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Letter to the editor: Unlike Gideon, Collins thinks for herself
Of course Sara Gideon won the Maine Democratic U.S. Senate primary. 1. She wouldn’t debate her opponents until the last minute. 2. Out-of-staters with deep pockets chose to pour money into her coffers. I think you can safely say she will be totally influenced by Democratic causes versus thinking for herself and what is best […]
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Letter to the editor: Keep pets off East End Beach in the summer
Keep Portland’s only public beach clean for people who don’t have access to other places to swim.
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Letter to the editor: Legislators must address roots of issues revealed by COVID
As they work to bring the Legislature back into session, House Speaker Sara Gideon and Senate President Troy Jackson are doing right by Maine’s people. We are 100 days into the public health emergency, and we’ve learned a lot about our state. Mainers have great capacity to pull together. Our spirit of cooperation prevented a […]
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Letter to the editor: Trump flouts rules that other taxpayers follow
Last week, a busload of Women for Trump visited a restaurant in Old Orchard Beach. In a front-page article in Thursday’s Portland Press Herald, Jackie Tierney of Old Orchard Beach was quoted as saying of President Trump, “I just think he’s one of us. He’s worked all his life and hasn’t lived off the taxpayers.” […]
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Letter to the editor: Yachts a blight on the Portland landscape
There is a blight on our beautiful city landscape, and it is not the encampment at City Hall. I had read about the “sleep out,” and on my walk yesterday, I strolled down Congress Street. I saw there a bustling, congenial community in the heart of the city making their desire to live with simple […]
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Letter to the Editor: Collins should fight Trump on COVID response
While Sen. Susan Collins is busy reminding us of her work on pandemic response it’s easy to lose sight of the glaring fact that her enabling of President Trump’s staggering ineptitude contributed to the tragedy unfolding around us. In an April 2 interview with the Bangor Daily News, Collins actually made excuses for Trump’s initial […]
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Letter to the Editor: Universal health care is essential to liberty
The Declaration of Independence tells us: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” And governments are responsible to secure these rights. Health care is fundamental to […]
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Letter to the Editor: It’s hard to look away from Trump’s bandwagon crash
A reader says the travails of the Trump campaign are spectacle that can’t be ignored.
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Letter to the editor: Consistency with AP writing style is no virtue
Editorial Page Editor Greg Kesich’s July 12 column, “White with a capital ‘W,’ ” deserves applause. We Whites are no more diverse in our outlook than Blacks, as he points out, but we do have one distinctive characteristic: white privilege, not be followed in stores, not to pulled over for driving while Black, etc. Therefore, […]