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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    June 2, 2013

    LePage doing good job standing up to MSEA

    "You are lying." (Gov. Paul LePage to Tim Belcher, attorney for Maine State Employees Association: Kennebec Journal headline May 14.)

  • Published
    June 2, 2013

    Dr. Seuss, apples, potatoes tell Medicaid story

    Guided by my recent rereading of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham," plus 36 years employment in the three branches of Maine government, I offer the following simple answers to current complicated legislative questions dealing with payment of $484 million hospital debt, 60,000 person expansion of Medicaid and Democrats dislike of Gov. Paul LePage's office foyer television set.

  • Published
    May 31, 2013

    Federal Medicaid money will help all Mainers

    Health care cost is one of the most serious concerns for our country and our state. Yes, we need to pay the hospitals. They continue, in most instances without question, to care for our uninsured and underinsured.

  • Published
    May 31, 2013

    Saying yes to money would help 45,000 Mainers

    So our governor -- who gets a pension and government paid health insurance for the rest of his life even if he serves only one term -- has decided that 45,000 Mainers who are living in or near poverty will get no help with their health insurance. According to the Center on Budget Priorities, www.cbpp.org/files/healthtoolkit2012/Maine.pdf), the federal government would pay for 45,000 Mainers to get health insurance if LePage said yes. Expanding Medicaid would save the state of Maine $573 million because the federal government would pay the whole cost for this insurance.

  • Published
    May 31, 2013

    Murderers get benefits our senior citizens don’t

    An award was given to Dr. Kermit Gosnell for murdering babies. Will Jodi Arias be given the same award for murdering her boyfriend? The award from the taxpayers is free healthcare, free food, free heat, free clothes and the knowledge that they beat the system.

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  • Published
    May 31, 2013

    Pew must get facts right on Maine kids’ oral health

    In a letter to the editor on May 16, Shelly Gehshan of the Pew Charitable Trusts acknowledged that I was correct in my op-ed column published on May 8. I noted that Pew had made one of the most embarrassing errors in recent public health memory by accidentally inflating untreated tooth decay rates in the U.S. by 600 perrcent, thereby showing that New Zealand schoolchildren have the same level of untreated tooth decay as children in the U.S. This despite universal, government-funded, school-based dental care in New Zealand performed by dental therapists for almost 100 years.

  • Published
    May 30, 2013

    Affordable health carepart of strong economy

    I was very disappointed to see that not one Republican supported the legislation to accept federal dollars under the Affordable Care Act and hospital repayment plan legislation.

  • Published
    May 30, 2013

    Woodpecker in photo yellow-bellied sapsucker

    I enjoyed the picture of the woodpecker in the Sunday Morning Sentinel, but it is not a downy woodpecker, as the caption stated, but rather a yellow-bellied sapsucker.

  • Published
    May 30, 2013

    GOP dropped the ball on superintendent residency

    Augusta residents not well-served by our GOP legislators on superintendent residency change.

  • Published
    May 30, 2013

    Police must start watching South Solon Road speeds

    Please (county and state police) start watching South Solon Road. It is a narrow and curvy road frequented by speeders. You can park in my driveway, but it will be better if you park at the end of the end of Padham Road. If you want to catch speeders going at least 20 mph over the limit, you can snag them all day without stop. It's likely that many of your catches will be for 30-plus offenses (or higher).

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