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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    April 6, 2012

    Young adults can’t afford to buy insurance

    Barack Obama is trying to get the young, healthy population to buy medical insurance to off-set the costs of the uninsured. Most of the young, healthy population can’t afford to buy medical insurance on their own. The part-time jobs they have don’t offer any benefits, and they can’t stay on their parent(s)’ health care policies […]

  • Published
    April 6, 2012

    Unthinkable may be needed if Iran gets nukes

    Some people are ignoring the possibility of Iran’s nuclear threat, as expressed by our State Department, the UN Security Council, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency. They discount the specter of Iran furnishing nuclear weapons to terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Since Iran currently supplies arms to these organizations, the […]

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    April 6, 2012

    Revised LURC bill better, but still needs oversight

    As a Franklin County Commissioner for 23 years, I am pleased that the Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee has unanimously approved reforms for the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC). As the planning, zoning, and permitting agency for Maine’s 10.4 million acres of North Woods and Unorganized Territories, LURC is very important. As originally written, […]

  • Published
    April 5, 2012

    Legislators, police seen violating law while driving

    I was driving home on March 26, on Interstate 95 from Augusta going north. As I got on the freeway, I noticed a vehicle in the passing lane going fairly fast. It had a state of Maine House of Representatives license plate. I followed the vehicle and saw the driver was talking on his cellphone […]

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    April 5, 2012

    Clean up welfare abuse, but start at right place

    The LePage administration vowed to clean up welfare abuse in Maine. The only problem with that wash job is they started at the wrong end of the totem pole. They found some small cases, where recipients actually had to show proof of income and the ones on Medicaid who need the extra help. Lo and […]

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  • Published
    April 5, 2012

    Corey Wilson a new face for House District 56

    Like most other people, I suspect, I am tired of exclusively partisan politics. In Augusta’s east side (House District 56), the incumbent said on TV (March 16), “I have a great lady” — then goes on to extol the virtues of a hand-picked successor. How about the opponent? Corey Wilson is a fresh, new, nonpolitical […]

  • Published
    April 5, 2012

    Owner of dog that killed poodle also suffering

    This is in response to Susan McMillan’s article, “Owner of dog involved in death of poodle cited,” published March 27 in the newspaper, and to those who have commented online. I am a neighbor and friend of Susan Pullen. She is a wonderful, compassionate woman, who has spent her life caring for dogs. Her business, […]

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    April 5, 2012

    Henry Ford knew value of paying workers well

    Republicans in Maine and across the nation have forgotten the lesson of Henry Ford a century ago. Ford paid his assemblyline workers wages that were much higher than the then-going wages for blue collar laborers, because he wanted to make sure his workers could buy the cars that they made. Ford understood that the ongoing […]

  • Published
    April 5, 2012

    We shouldn’t encourage expansions of landfills

    Another discouraging vote from the Maine Legislature on waste disposal with our own Rep. Jeff McCabe, D-Skowhegan, really pushing it. He spoke twice in the floor debate, never actually addressing the merits of the bill, but saying how well Waste Management is run and how he has no fears about pollution. He said he’ll swim […]

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    April 5, 2012

    Paper used to print articles by local church leaders

    A recent letter to the Morning Sentinel, by the Rev. Bill Cripe, reminded readers about a time when the main article on Saturday’s religion page was written by the leaders of local churches, like Cripe. Now, instead of Maine issues, we find syndicated essays about what’s happening in Alabama or California or, in one instance, […]