On the bottle bill, April 10’s Maine Compass states: “Absurdly, other people pick through those recycling bins on trash days looking for beverage containers.” The word “absurdly” disrespectfully denies some people’s reality of desperately eking out their meager survival. They also pick up recyclables that are tossed out by us who are not likely to […]

I was happy to read in the newspaper of Friday, April 8 that the Maine House of Representatives had voted to ban bisphenol-A from children’s products sold in Maine. The dangers of this product have been well-established and widely published, our governor’s cavalier comments notwithstanding. Then I read a statement from one of the three […]

In his letter of April 6, Neal Patterson might have pointed out that under the Maine Public Employee Retirement System, the average benefit for all retired teachers is $19,300. Only 13 percent of teachers make it through 25 years or more to receive an average pension of $26,000. Since teachers are not covered by Social […]