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Published
April 1, 2010

Letters to the editor, April 1, 2010Health care too vital for partisanship

Health care fatigue, anyone? What many conservatives and Republicans don’t seem to understand are the personal and immediate health needs that people have every day. Their ideology does not include a way to address real-life issues that the average person or family faces every day because their “marketplace” fixes are long-term solutions to problems that […]
Published
March 31, 2010

Letters to the editor, March 31, 2010Dental school would benefit Maine

The University of New England has spent many years studying the feasibility of, and now planning for, a College of Dental Medicine in Maine. This is a college for the entire state with students learning and practicing at community clinics all over Maine. UNE takes its mission seriously in responding to the critical shortage of […]
Published
March 30, 2010

Letters to the editor, March 30, 2010No wind power near Bigelow, please

In June 1976, the voters of Maine made the extremely wise decision to protect and preserve the natural treasure that is the Bigelow Mountain Range, located in both Franklin and Somerset counties. At that time, this incredible area was threatened by a development plan that would have transformed it into an “Aspen of the East” […]
Published
March 29, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 29, 2010

Plan for Maine train: Pain or plain? Much has been made of the $30 million coming to Maine to provide passenger rail service from Portland to Brunswick. Politicians and civic leaders are grabbing the microphone from each other to extol the benefits of slow rail, a third-world infrastructure. I could understand if the train were […]
Published
March 28, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 28, 2010

Strippers don’t belong in paper Soft porn, as described by Wikipedia, “is a form of filmic or photographic pornography or erotica that is less sexually explicit than hard-core pornography.” That is what not-so-tastefully graced the front page of the Maine Sunday Telegram on March 14. Is this a family publication or a prelude to Hustler […]

Published
March 27, 2010

More Letters to the Editor: March 27, 2010

Health care: Some see golden dawn, others red ink Finally, we have a real health care system, not an “illness care” system. We will promote health and prevent illness and lower the cost of health care. We will prevent the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in our country. How can anyone object to this health […]
Published
March 27, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 27, 2010

Right-wing comments inflammatory An Associated Press article in the Press Herald asks, “Has political discourse reached an all-time low?” I propose the general answer is no, but the conservative right has. Unfortunately, many on the right are getting their information from those who benefit most from instilling panic and fear. Talk-radio hosts and their wannabes […]
Published
March 26, 2010

Letters to the editor: March 26, 2010

Stories on Israel flawed from any angle After many years of hearing and reading about a bias against Israel in the mainstream media, I thought I’d see how my hometown newspaper stacks up against this charge. With Israel in the news of late due to the tension between the Obama administration and the Israeli government […]
Published
March 25, 2010

Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010

People approved of pot dispensaries, let’s have them As a person who requires medicinal marijuana in order to live a productive life, I am completely outraged with the government here in Maine! I worked extremely hard back in the late ’90s to get our initial medicinal marijuana law passed. This law, in short, gave […]
Published
March 25, 2010

More Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010

Blowing hot and cold on offshore wind I want to point out an oversight in Staff Writer Tux Turkel’s otherwise fine March 12 article, “Oil dealers: Offshore wind plan a mistake.” Turkel states that 8,000 megawatts (MW) of wind is the equivalent of six Seabrook nuclear plants. In fact, it is about the equivalent of […]

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