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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    July 20, 2012

    It’s wrong to steal from someone’s grave

    I wonder why people feel they have the need to steal from graves. My granddaughter passed in 2010 and is laid to rest in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Augusta. Someone has taken the stuff we put there. This is very upsetting. Why? This is wrong. Pat Salmonson Vassalboro

  • Published
    July 19, 2012

    Would LePage kick old poor people out of homes?

    I seek clarification of a point raised in your story of July 11, “Pingree: Block LePage plan to cut 27,000 from Medicaid rolls.” My understanding of the article is that Gov. Paul LePage wants to eliminate those persons who receive both Medicare and Medicaid. A person is eligible for Medicare by virtue of either age […]

  • Published
    July 19, 2012

    ‘Enlightening’ a word that can describe Inca culture

    I generally try not to respond to “Reader’s Opinions.” All opinions are of value, even those I disagree with. In this case, I must write to agree with Cidalia Thibault’s July 10 letter regarding the overuse of the words “amazing” and “awesome.” Such words indeed belittle her experience in the study of a culture other […]

  • Published
    July 19, 2012

    What will be governor’s next moronic statement?

    In his column, Mike Tipping said the statement about the Gestapo was not the worst that Paul LePage has made. If you are a Holocaust survivor, a World War II prisoner of war under the Gestapo, or one of the people tortured by them, you probably disagree with Tipping. Now we can sit back wait […]

  • Published
    July 19, 2012

    Devine’s column makes mockery of church

    I frowned after reading J.P. Devine’s column “Summer Pepsi nights” on July 8. In it he recounted the nostalgic summer days of his youth when he and his friends would steal a couple sodas from a beverage truck: “We could have taken a whole wooden case, but we weren’t thieves, and we always confessed it […]

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  • Published
    July 19, 2012

    Consider these ideas to cut down spending, taxes

    If the government wants to really cut down on spending it could: Ask for proof of citizenship or legal resident status; nonlegal aliens would be reported to Immigration. Cut pork-barrel spending (Congress will not like this one). Go by the laws Congress passes, have a cut in pay and benefits, pay more for their health […]

  • Published
    July 18, 2012

    Silence of leading state Republicans worrisome

    I have to wonder if the Blaine House has a dictionary. I have, and it gives the definition of Gestapo as: The German state secret police organized under the Nazi regime, noted for their brutality. It is well known what the Gestapo did to the German Jewish community and all other Jewish people. Gov. Paul […]

  • Published
    July 18, 2012

    Power plant standards needed for energy future

    Extreme weather events, such as the storm that tore apart Brownville and other Maine towns in late June, are on the rise. Scientists warn that global warming will bring even more extreme weather in the future, and power plants are the largest U.S. source of the carbon pollution that causes global warming. Maine has been […]

  • Published
    July 18, 2012

    Socialism does not need to equal communism

    The rich man’s worst nightmare undoubtedly is the vision that people will embrace socialism. The chronically maligned form of government has repeatedly saved the rich with people’s money when banks and other financial institutions had to rescued under the belief they were “too big to fail.” (AIG alone received $182 billion.) Sharing wealth or assuming […]

  • Published
    July 18, 2012

    Got three coins for Dick Pierce memorial?

    I learned late last year that our friend Dick Pierce passed on Aug. 5, 2011, and, indeed, it was big news and sad news. The obituary was as expected, no doubt boiled down like a good Maine maple syrup to an especially noteworthy amount of accomplishments. But for those who knew Dick, there was so […]