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Published
December 7, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 7, 2010GOP pushing Congress off fiscal cliff

Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have both vastly disappointed all proud Mainers and have most seriously betrayed our free-thinking spirit, our innate independent heritage and our hopes both for ourselves and the country. How? siding with every other Republican in the U.S. Senate in guaranteeing legislative gridlock and by assuring that the processes of […]
Published
December 6, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 6, 2010Do we need business input to laws?

Back in the early ’90s, then-Speaker of the House John Martin reportedly told a delegation of business leaders that they could leave the state if they did not like the business climate he and his fellow Democrats had created in Maine. Maine’s present dismal business climate indicates that many took Martin’s suggestion. What a refreshing […]
Published
December 5, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 5, 2010Gas tax hike would really hurt

I assume that state Rep. Ann Peoples, D-Westbrook, does not know anyone who is upset with the price of gasoline in her district (“On the roads again: Find new ways to pay for maintenance, group urges,” Nov. 28). She states that Maine drivers absorbed the latest round of gasoline price increases without anybody yelling or […]
Published
December 4, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 4, 2010Council has no clue on guns

The Portland City Council ought to have more serious items to deliberate rather than seeking a solution to a nonproblem. The time wasted to debate the idea of a resolution to be forwarded to the Legislature to ban firearms in various public buildings is a perfect example of government waste and absurdity. It is this […]
Published
December 4, 2010

More letters to the editor, Dec. 4, 2010Crumpled cruiser is too distracting

I don’t understand why the South Portland Police Department is trying to prove a point by placing a “smashed-up” cruiser and blinking sign on Broadway at the entrance to the Casco Bay Bridge, one of the city’s busiest intersections. On my way to work one morning my car almost ended up looking like the display. […]

Published
December 3, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 3, 2010Medicare shortfall very serious

Thank you for the recent article highlighting resources available to help seniors make good decisions about their health insurance. Unfortunately, unless Congress acts quickly, seniors may also need help finding doctors. Due to a flawed Medicare payment formula that Congress created a decade ago, seniors may soon find it hard to get the health care […]
Published
December 2, 2010

Letters to the editor, Dec. 2, 2010Fee in lieu of parking good move

The Maine Alliance for Sustainable Transportation would like to thank the Portland City Council for recently voting to adopt a “fee-in-lieu-of-parking” ordinance that will allow developers in Portland to choose to contribute to a “sustainable transportation fund” instead of building parking lots or garages on their site. The proposal came out of the Peninsula Transit […]
Published
December 2, 2010

More letters to the editor, Dec. 2, 2010Readers still needled by tree

I have enjoyed reading columns by Bill Nemitz for many years. I find him to be well-informed, clever and entertaining. I learn something or I’m amused by reading his work. I read his article about the Christmas tree in Monument Square and found it amusing; a tongue-in-check discussion of people who can’t say the word […]
Published
December 1, 2010

Letters to the edtor, Dec. 1, 2010Ways to solve our fiscal problems

Ron Bancroft described a series of debt reduction proposals in his Nov. 23 column (“Cutting deficit will mean hard decisions that can’t be put off”), and suggested that we all needed to stop whining and find a solution. Here’s a suggestion that’s much simpler, and in the end cheaper for all of us, than implementing […]
Published
November 30, 2010

Letters to the editor, Nov. 30, 2010Searching for answers in security

I was dismayed by Ruth Marcus’ column “TSA’s airport screenings done for our own good” (Nov. 24). The choice between an irradiated strip search or a genital grope is not much of a choice. It is most certainly a violation of our Fourth Amendment right “to be secure in (our) persons, houses, papers, and effects, […]

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