Last week, I arrived in Lewiston from Portland to place flowers on my parents’ grave. I was disappointed to find the main gate at Riverside Cemetery locked. The grave site is at a farther end. I am 90 years old; carrying a large container of flowers that distance was not an option. I was pondering […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Deceptive agenda being pushed
Thanks to road signs telling me to vote “yes” to save ranked-choice voting, I’ll be voting “no” this June 12. How this issue ever got approved for referendum in the first place is a head-scratcher. The constitution clearly states that the candidate who wins a plurality of votes wins the election. Period. The people who […]
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Freedom of speech for all
Let me see if I have this right — freedom of speech allows the Ku Klux Klan to march wherever they choose and chant whatever they choose. But, if NFL players peacefully and silently protest bias by taking a knee during the National Anthem, they are fined by the league and threatened by President Trump, […]
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Bruce Poliquin must go
Why would a politician, who is supposed to represent Maine, decide to cut SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that benefits approximately 180,000 Mainers? Ask Bruce Poliquin. He voted to cut this program for the disabled and for the children whose parents can’t afford to give them lunch money. He voted to cut the […]
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McGrane is one of the people
Gary McGrane will get my vote for Maine Senate in the Democratic primary on June 12. He has lived in Jay for 40 years and raised his three children here, has worked in Jay and knows the people here, and currently serves the people of Jay as a town selectman and knows the issues here. […]
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Proud to support Janet Mills
Municipal officials have a tough job, made harder through the past several years because of reductions in revenue sharing. Maine’s economic future and the health of its communities depends on finding more common ground and seeking collaboration, not mindless partisanship. I came to know Janet Mills in 1980 when she was elected district attorney for […]
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Alternative court system works
I think that Mark LaFlamme’s article “DAs recount experiences with hermit” (May 22) missed a major point of the presentation. That was that the alternative court system required Knight to have weekly counseling and court appearances, pay restitution and have a reconciliation meeting with his victims. This was at a cost of $26,000 a year, […]
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A practical choice for governor
My wife and I recently settled in the Bethel area some 125 years after my great-grandparents emigrated here and Maine is now our home. I fervently believe that our political leaders need to be practical, results-oriented people and I support Terry Hayes for governor on that basis. Terry has identified partisanship as the biggest problem […]
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Claxton can get things done
Edward “Ned” Claxton is the kind of person that democracies need. He listens before he speaks. Then … versus staking out a position, he reaches out to everyone to try and build consensus. I’ve known Ned first as the directing physician of the Central Maine Family Residency Program and later as a member in the […]
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More questions for voters
In his letter of May 19, Thomas Shields proposed several questions to be asked of candidates. Most are important issues on which I tend to agree with the Republican positions. However, I would propose more important questions. Are you concerned that the president fails to acknowledge that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 elections? […]