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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    July 24, 2012

    Banda a great candidate for district attorney

    Kennebec and Somerset counties are indeed fortunate to have Darrick Banda running for district attorney. He has lived in, been educated inn and worked for the people of Maine. Darrick has chosen to serve the people of Maine as assistant district attorney of Kennebec and Somerset counties for five years. During that time, he has […]

  • Published
    July 23, 2012

    Drastic measures needed to stop climate change

    Our atmosphere and climate have undergone drastic changes, both in the past and present, because of incremental changes caused by living things. The first such change occurred 3 billion years ago, when our atmosphere was about 20 percent carbon dioxide and had essentially no free oxygen. The temperature of the earth was in the right […]

  • Published
    July 23, 2012

    Even Vigue doesn’t know what future will bring

    I keep thinking back to Peter Vigue’s public address in Dover-Foxcroft on May 31. The most telling moment for me was his response when asked about his proposed east-west highway’s official tagline: Transportation-Utility-Communications. Several times, he said his company, Cianbro, has no intention to have a gas line or cable run along the highway. When […]

  • Published
    July 23, 2012

    Whatever Olay is, it may be salvation of women

    A few years ago, I was impressed with the amount of advertising for Oil of Olay that appeared on television, claiming to make women beautiful. I had never heard of Olay and wrote a letter to the editor what Olay was that supplied all that oil. I received no answer, but the ads stopped. Now […]

  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    LePage sees poor, needy as scourge of our country

    Gov. Paul LePage recently compared the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the mandatory health insurance provision in Obama’s health care legislation to the “new Gestapo — the IRS.” LePage’s Gestapo comment may be accurate in reference to his bullying approach. As the son of Nazi Holocaust survivors, I have learned about Nazi intimidating tactics. Upon […]

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  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    Maine not open for business but embarrassment

    So now we have the Gestapo comment. Once again, but surely not for the last time, Maine’s not as much “open for business” as open for embarrassment. Just as the recent Supreme Court ruling ruined M.D. Harmon’s summer by creating an “abyss,” Gov. Paul LePage surfaces with his abysmal vocabulary and characteristic thoughtlessness. In 2008, […]

  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    What to do with windfall of thousands of dollars?

    We’ve all heard about the woman who was teased and taunted on the school bus and was sent thousands of dollars in donations. She’s been interviewed numerous times on TV and asked what she’ll do with all that money; she says she doesn’t know. To me, it’s a no-brainer. I’d give to animal shelters, homeless, […]

  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    LePage doesn’t trust voters to think for themselves

    I am writing in regard to Gov. Paul LePage’s freeze on grants to towns. It’s not the flashiest news story of the year, but it hits many of us close to home. Communities throughout Maine applied for and were awarded these grants for specific projects to rehabilitate downtowns and make other improvements. It is especially […]

  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    Obama has lived up to Kennedy endorsement

    Looking back, the Kennedy family has done a lot for this country.

  • Published
    July 22, 2012

    In voting, seek repeal of health care law

    An acquaintance asked me the other day why I haven’t written a letter to the editor lately. My flippant reply was that “it’s golf season!” But if the truth be known, this avowed conservative who makes no bones about his hard right-wing beliefs has been a little discouraged lately by the inexorable march and success […]