Re: “Ranked-choice opponents file signatures to try to repeal Maine’s law” (June 15): The article on the Maine Republicans’ referendum to overturn the Maine law allowing ranked-choice voting for presidential elections gives the impression that the Maine Republican Party and volunteers performed a herculean effort to gather signatures in so little time. Nothing could be […]
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Letter to the editor: BIW strike exposes issues with employer-sponsored insurance
Neither the shipyard nor workers should have to deal with details of health care coverage when key workplace issues remain unaddressed.
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Letter to the editor: Many remained enslaved months after Juneteenth
The writer of a recently published letter (Denise Shames, June 21) was correct in pointing out that American slavery did not end on Juneteenth, but mistaken in stating that it was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation is short and clear. By its terms it freed slaves only in places then “in rebellion against […]
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Letter to the editor: Portland school board chair backs Mentzinger in District 43
As the Portland Board of Public Education completes another brutal budgeting year, I am endorsing Bob Mentzinger for the Democratic nomination in Maine House District 43. Bob took an early interest in the debate over school resource officers, a burning issue that’s only gotten hotter since the murder of George Floyd, and was an early […]
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Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting has worked well in Oregon
I note, in all your coverage of the absentee/vote by mail issue, you have failed to cover the system used by the state of Oregon. The voters of that state are so happy with the system that the state now pays for the postage of the ballots in both directions. Additionally, there seems to be […]
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Letter to the editor: Brunswick Councilor Wilson ready to represent District 49
This letter is in support of Brunswick resident Kathy Wilson, who is running for the Democratic nomination for Maine House District 49. I have had the good fortune to work with Kathy as a member of the Brunswick Town Council and found her to ask very good questions, look at ramifications of decisions and to […]
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Letter to the editor: Independent candidates deserve to be on November ballot
Unlike officials in Vermont and New Hampshire, Gov. Mills isn’t taking COVID-related limitations into account when setting filing deadlines.
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Letter to the editor: Mainers can’t let down our guard against COVID
We’ve had far fewer cases and deaths than we would have if we’d done nothing to protect one another. That doesn’t mean it’s time to let things slide.
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Letter to the editor: Tired of Collins’ complicity? Vote for Gideon on July 14
We have witnessed an extraordinary failure of the U.S. Senate by its complicity in abuses of power by a president who has repeatedly lied to Americans, inappropriately exercised authority, aligned with corrupt powers, compromised the environment, fueled racism and xenophobia and failed miserably to respond to COVID-19. While I appreciate that Sen. Susan Collins voiced […]
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Letter to the editor: Rank Kidman, then Sweet for ‘people first’ Senate nominee
Bre Kidman is my choice for Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. From the beginning, they’ve shown up as a force against establishment politics and business-as-usual government. As a youth organizer with Sunrise Maine, I know that my future hinges on a Green New Deal champion who is beholden to the people. That’s why I urge […]