I had vowed to keep my silence, but Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald’s outrageous attacks against the needy have forced me to speak out (Sun Journal, Sept. 25). Why the vitriol? Why the abject ignorance of the facts? Did Macdonald not take a couple of hours from his busy invectives to embrace what Pope Francis has […]
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No shame in needing help
Lewiston’s Mayor Robert Macdonald has a great idea (Sun Journal, Sept. 25). No one is trying to “shame” welfare recipients who truly need help. But “shame” is the way opposition will try to kill this public list of welfare recipients. Maine taxpayers are sick and tired of carrying the lazy and system players using welfare […]
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J. Lysen: Enforcing housing codes
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald got it all wrong in his April 29 letter that responded to Ben Chin’s April 19 guest column that analyzed the proposed changes to the city’s new comprehensive plan draft. Chin raised concerns that mandatory enforcement of housing codes, along with accountability for violations, had been removed from the draft. Chin […]
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L. Jensen: Cares about the future of Lewiston
I want to express gratitude to Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald. Macdonald has recently been leading a charge to combat lead poisoning in the city — a problem that afflicts Lewiston at a rate far greater than the state average. As someone in my mid-20s, I like it that Lewiston has a mayor who cares about […]
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R. Cyr: Behavior was childish
What childish behavior the newly re-elected mayor of Lewiston displayed on the front page of the Sun Journal the day following the election. Imagine gloating over his victory while sticking out his tongue. To top it all off, he was quoted as saying “There are a lot of people that just don’t like Larry Gilbert.” […]