According to a story in the Sun Journal Aug. 12, homeowners and tenants in Lewiston may soon be paying for each trash bag placed for curbside collection. The cost for a 15-gallon bag was estimated as $1.25 and $2 for a 30-gallon bag. If people use just one bag per week, that would amount to […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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New Englanders know how to adjust
Five years ago, I installed a wood pellet stove as an alternative to my oil furnace because of the high price of oil. At that time, heating oil was more than $3 per gallon and a 40-pound bag of wood pellets was $2.30. Today, oil is somewhere around $1.75 per gallon and a 40-pound bag […]
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Build a wall around ‘The Donald’
The media has created a monster by giving Donald Trump free publicity. I am amused that an old white man with an odd hairdo, sitting on a pile of money, spewing insults to three-quarters of the voting population, is running for president. He is supposedly high in the polls. The polling should be taken in […]
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Practice what you preach
It saddened me to read Larry Gilbert Sr.’s letter (Aug. 18) in which he wrote about how Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald “demonized” the Maine People’s Alliance and, in doing so, all he did was demonize Macdonald. It also leads me to question if Gilbert really understands what he claimed. Gilbert claimed that the MPA is […]
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Private school vouchers
The taxes paid by parents of students in public schools help pay for their children’s education. My parents are paying taxes, but because I am going to private school that tax money doesn’t go to the cost of my education. As an agreement with my parents to attend private school, I pay for my books, […]
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Whom should we believe?
On Aug. 21, the Sun Journal printed a story about NOAA, “Earth’s heat broke records in July,” in which it was claimed that the world has gotten hotter each and every year during the past century. Perhaps it is the fault of every human on this planet who inhales oxygen and exhales the evil pollutant, […]
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New Markets program has served Maine well
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Emily Cain — what do they have in common? They’re all prominent Democrats running for higher office and they all support the New Markets Tax Credit program that was so harshly derided by Democratic state Rep. Paul Gilbert in the Sun Journal (Aug. 2). Hillary Clinton’s website says, “The New […]
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Poor grade for new grading system
I believe that the current proficiency-based learning grading system at Lewiston High School won’t have a positive impact for sophomores this coming school year. After the past school year, the PBL grading system put more than half of the freshman class of 2018 in summer school because the teachers didn’t grade the students well. I […]
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Needed — legislators with courage
This is in response to the story in the Sun Journal about benefit bartering (Aug. 16). I have two points to make: • Is there no one in the State Legislature with enough courage to pass new laws against the fraud being committed by some receivers of state aid (MaineCare, SNAP and TANF)? Laws are […]
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Attacking mayor was offensive
As one whose work requires him to walk the streets of Lewiston six days a week, I find former Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert Sr.’s recent letter (Aug. 18) promoting the Maine People’s Alliance and attacking current Mayor Robert Macdonald and Gov. Paul LePage to be ridiculous and offensive. Both LePage and Macdonald are trying to […]