I’m writing about the rather insulting letter I received from E-ZPass customer service today, specifically, the sentence that reads, “At this time, we request that you immediately refrain from evading tolls, and reimburse the outstanding toll amount of $_.__.” The letter implies that the Maine Turnpike Authority is accusing me of stealing from them, when […]
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Maine knows the time for health care reform is now | Letter
In the Nov. 20 issue, columnist Douglas Rooks asks why, in the face of the recent crisis of funding our health care system, we do not consider fundamental changes (“In shutdown’s wake, a golden opportunity for nationalized health care“). We have the most expensive system in the world, but our health indices are near the […]
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Cherish Maine’s immigrant neighbors | Letter
I, for one, cannot imagine Maine without the beauty and benefits that they offer us.
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Recent events offer more proof that words matter | Letter
Bates Professor William Hiss’ Dec. 17 letter to the editor (“Remember how much language matters“) is spot on. Words matter, and those who use words that terrorize, inflame or incite violence should be held responsible for the consequences. Words inciting violence toward Jews have spurred attacks worldwide. Jews were targeted and murdered at Pittsburgh’s Tree of […]
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Online letter commenters should not be allowed to use aliases | Letter
Why does this publication require a real name and place of residence for a letter writer and then allow online readers to use aliases to respond on its websites? This policy invites vitriol and often threatening responses. Readers don’t even see the worst that are reported as not being published. If everyone publicly stood by […]
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NPR and PBS did not have to be defunded | Letter
NPR, PBS and CPB would never have lost their taxpayer funding if they followed thejournalistic model of reporting a complete story instead of a partial rendering of the incident orissue to fit a predetermined outcome. As a college radio station newsman in 1970, my manager, a senior, instructed me to collatethe hourly news feed from […]
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America needs to get back to basics | Letter
I agreed with Karen Levine Egee’s op-ed, published back on July 7, that “people are basically good.” As I understand it, however, in America we have been trained by big business to believe that more is better: bigger houses, cars, better clothes, more money, etc. Too much competition. We have become slaves to our wants. […]
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More need to share the burden of Portland’s social service costs | Letter
I appreciate Mayor Mark Dion’s Dec. 12 Portland Press Herald op-ed (“When it comes to sheltering homeless people, Portland can’t go it alone“) and the challenges facing Portland dealing with ongoing homelessness and the related drug and mental health crisis that we all observe, especially when we walk downtown. Portland’s police, fire and social service […]
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Our outrage on substance use can be selective | Letter
What should trouble us most is not what kills us, but what we have learned to live with.
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Let’s have local accountability before the bill comes due | Letter
Regarding Reuben M. Schafir’s Dec. 7, Page 1 Maine Sunday Telegram story, “The bill has come due Down East,” the only question is: how come a similar situation hasn’t occurred sooner and more often in Maine towns and counties? We send police candidates to an academy to learn the business, lawyers to law schools and […]