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Letter to the editor: Collins, Gideon should use ad money to aid Mainers
Everyone agrees TV advertising is out of control. There are way too many ads and most are run way too often. The Federal Communications Commission used to have limits on the number and length of TV ads and needs to put the restrictions in place again. Currently, during the horror of this COVID-19 pandemic, there […]
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Letter to the editor: Investor-oriented economy is a less resilient one
Our economy is designed to give maximum return on short-term investment. In stable times it creates goods and services cheaply and rewards short-term investors generously. Managers who fail these measures are at risk of being replaced. Economic resilience is not valued. Four examples follow. • Tying up money in supplies and inventory is considered wasteful. […]
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Letter to the editor: Amid urgency, questions about test
What questions, if any, should be raised about COVID-19 testing’s accuracy rate prior to the ramping up of testing?
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Letter to the editor: Maine needs strategic testing, tracing plan
Maine needs to immediately develop a strategic testing and tracing plan, targeting a testing and tracing capability of 5,000 a day and options to ramp to 10,000 and 15,000, respectively. I have provided Gov. Mills an outline for a testing maximization of Maine’s government and nongovernment labs. A similar effort should be undertaken for tracing […]
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Letter to the editor: Emotions, uninformed opinions won’t fend off virus
It’s a virus. County, state and national boundaries don’t affect it. Emotions, fear, frustration, anger mean nothing. It has one implacable purpose: to enter human beings and feed until its host is dead and then find another host. For now, the only response is medieval: Get as far away from it as possible until a […]
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Letter to the editor: Overregulation squeezing Maine cannabis entrepreneurs
The failure of Maine’s attorney general to defend the state’s residency requirement gives Big Marijuana even more of an edge.
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Letter to the editor: Maskless man makes point of rude behavior
During a visit to a midcoast grocery store, I was wearing a mask and rubber gloves. Suddenly, a brute of a man, without a mask, deliberately came toward me from the opposite direction from the one that was marked with a large directional arrow, taped on the store’s floor. He pushed me and made a […]
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Letter to the editor: COVID worsens destructive effects of gag rule
As coronavirus continues to spread, people across the world are facing increased barriers in accessing reproductive health services. For people in the developing world, the pandemic is further threatening health care systems already disrupted by dangerous policies like the global gag rule, which bars U.S. assistance to health providers abroad that even mention abortion and […]
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Letter to the editor: Opening Fort Williams to all will lift spirits
It’s nice of the Fort Williams elitists to allow the local pedestrians, disabled and bike riders in, but how about the Maine citizenry who require an automobile to visit, like people from Portland? Why not allow them in and allow them to park? There’s lots of space. Do we have to wait till June 1? […]