When I heard of the recent vandalizing of the Simard-Payne Memorial Park that honors two fallen heroes, I was both saddened and angered. Should the individual(s) responsible for that awful misdeed be apprehended, I would recommend punishment to the fullest extent of the law. Those two men died while serving and protecting the good people […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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So much has changed
Does anybody remember going car shopping back in the ’50s? There were so many to choose from — two- and four-door sedans, two- and four-door hardtops, two-tone paint jobs, convertibles, little cars, big cars. There were “woodies,” made with real wood, of every description, even woodie convertibles. There were station wagons and big sedans almost […]
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A better system of voting
I did not realize until recently that nine of the past 11 governors were elected without a majority vote. Of course, that happens when more than two candidates run for the same office at the same time. That happens a lot here in Maine. I first took notice of it when Gov. Paul LePage won […]
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Tax increase not necessary
I write in response to the Sun Journal staff story “Growing schools, bigger budgets” (April 20). Once again, the Lewiston School Committee is trying to justify huge increases in its budget with half-truths. The need for 57-plus teachers is ridiculous. The added teaching staff will do nothing to reduce class size or help accommodate the […]
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Responsibility is ours alone
I am dismayed by Richard Smith’s letter (April 30) criticizing Lewiston City Councilor Jim Lysen’s support of a reasonable school budget that meets needs and that Lysen is tired of complaints of a growing student population. He claimed that Lysen said “more is a good thing.” I agree fully with Lysen. Smith assumes in his […]
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Gives back to the community
Roger Fuller is running as a Democrat for House of Representative District 59 in the June 14 primary. Fuller is retired after 42 years in education as a teacher and administrator. He is a small business owner and a landlord in Lewiston and owns a property in New Hampshire. He knows he will have big […]
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Story had inaccuracies
The Sun Journal featured a long article on Maine-made money (April 17). I don’t know how correctly it reported the information about the details of paper money issued by banks in Maine, but I have little confidence in its accuracy since the author, apparently relying on the word of appraiser Larry Corbett, got some very […]
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Vote for the person, not the party
A new presidential election is upon us. Millionaires would like to run this country like a private club, in their favor. The economy is rigged by a corrupt financial system unleashed by the Citizens United ruling, whereby representatives are legally bribed to write laws that favor the one percent. I have to wonder what today’s […]
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Discrimination at work
I find it interesting that the governor can and has received support to raise salaries for law enforcement officers, including troopers, game wardens, fire marshals and marine patrol officers and their supervisors, by 12 to 18 percent, yet cannot even gather support to raise the minimum pay for the rank and file citizens. That is […]
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Laying a solid foundation
As members of Oxford County’s law enforcement community, we applaud Oxford Hills School District for beginning to offer pre-kindergarten for its children next year. There are many reasons why high-quality pre-K is beneficial, but chief among them, in our minds, is that it can put children on the right track early in life so they […]