Though Maine voters enacted the 1996 Maine Clean Elections law requiring the state to transfer $2 million to that fund on Jan. 1 each year and an additional $1 million beginning this year, the program has been shortchanged $6 million thanks to insufficient funding and diversion of funds. Lawmakers must rectify that shortfall and refrain from […]
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Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Turn on the headlights
One good thing auto makers did recently is to have auto headlights go on when a car is started. Evidently, people who have older model cars and who don’t know the state law are unaware that once the windshield wipers are turned on, the car’s headlights need to be turned on. How many times, during […]
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Increasing governor’s salary
Gov. Paul LePage is recommending increasing the salary for future Maine governors to $150,000. That change would not impact LePage’s salary, but it would definitely impact his retirement compensation. Retirement compensation for Maine governors is three-eighths or 37.5 percent of the current governor’s salary when the former governor leaves office or reaches age 60. Gov. […]
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Find jobs for prison inmates
I am an inmate at Androscoggin County Jail. My concern is the issue of earning good time. Inmates can earn “good time” for doing various jobs, but the amount of time one can earn is very limited. I am hoping that Gov. LePage would do something to allow more jobs so inmates can earn more […]
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Embrace healthy eating
March has ended and so does National Nutrition Month — a time when groups such as the Administration for Community Living, an office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, works in collaboration with local agencies on aging, including SeniorsPlus, to bring attention to its work to ensure that the aging population does […]
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Lysen should listen to constituents
I found the article “Bigger school budget in works … New students account for much of increase in Lewiston proposal” (March 29) not really news, as that has been the theme for several years now. However, the comments from Councilor Jim Lysen were rather provocative, to say the least. Lysen said he supports a reasonable […]
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Macdonald letter ironic
This is a response to Robert Macdonald’s letter (March 30). He spends most of his letter railing against Bob Pelletier’s letter of March 25 regarding the Lewiston budget and the people entrusted to spend Lewiston’s dollars wisely. Macdonald wrote that, “Pelletier crossed the line when he criticized Lewiston’s hard-working dedicated employees,” and added, “that department […]
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Bring the court to full strength
This is in response to Roland Rancourt Jr.’s letter (March 25). Rancourt mentioned a speech given by Joe Biden in June of 1992 about not confirming a nominee for the Supreme Court — I don’t believe Biden’s speech was made into law. So much for hypocrisy. It appears to me that the Republicans are just […]
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Bald-faced propaganda
It staggers one’s faith in honest journalism that the Sun Journal would print a guest column by Will Coggin (March 27), “Antiquities Act allows Obama to take land as monuments.” At the very least, the editors need to make clear the source of Coggin’s assertions with the Environmental Policy Alliance, cleverly named to be easily […]
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Republican obstructionism
In his letter March 25, Roland Rancourt Jr. hoped that Republican members of the U.S Senate will defer Supreme Court nomination hearings. He didn’t discuss the rationale those Republican members have given for obstructing the process required by the U.S. Constitution. He only talks about what he calls the hypocrisy of Vice President Joe Biden, […]