Right and wrong ways to clean restaurant seats

Letters to the Editor

Published
April 14, 2012

Right and wrong ways to clean restaurant seats

For many years, I have observed how tables are cleaned in restaurants before the next patrons are seated. Only once have I seen a proper cleaning of tables whereby one cloth is used for the table and another one for the seat. I find it offensive to see the wait staff go from the seat […]
Published
April 14, 2012

No one in Iran would be on our side

As the pressure to take action against Iran increases, we should consider the possibility that military action will produce an unwinnable war worse than Vietnam. In all the wars we have ever fought in our history, some element of the population in that country always has been on our side. In Iran, no one is […]
Published
April 14, 2012

We need system that supports independence

Our welfare system is hurting the very people it’s supposed to help. And I believe, I’m ashamed to say, that most of us know it. We’re raising another generation of people who think we owe them whatever they want (not need). The result is that they are being cheated out of self-respect, dignity and the […]
Published
April 13, 2012

Poliquin as senator not good for Maine, economy

Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin sent me a fundraising letter this week reporting that a handful of state legislators — including mine, Rep. Phil Curtis of Norridgewock, and Rep. Larry Dunphy of Embden — have come out in support of his campaign for U.S. Senate. How state legislators from the poorest county in Maine could […]
Published
April 13, 2012

President Hayes must have been an Easter event

Regarding the AP story about the White House Easter egg roll, published in the newspaper on Easter morning: If the tradition was started by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1898, then he himself was an Easter event. He died in 1893. President Hayes arose! Who knew? Richard Dostie Fairfield

Published
April 13, 2012

Snowe, Collins asked to back Safe Chemicals Act

As a mother who often worries about keeping my kids safe from exposure to toxic chemicals, I was encouraged to see that Maine’s House and Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution asking Congress to fix our badly broken chemical safety laws. I hope Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins will follow Maine’s lead by helping […]
Published
April 13, 2012

‘Hunger Games’ still leaves us hungry

The ancient Romans had their vomitorium so that people could throw up between courses in order to eat more while they watched gladiators butcher each other. Now this same thing is at our local theater and making lots of money, according to the newspaper headline, “‘Hunger Games’ domestic total tops $300 million.” For a few […]
Published
April 13, 2012

Reisert’s recent column one of his more partisan

Since it is clearly one of his more partisan political attacks, Joseph Reisert’s recent column (“Economic security, as Obama sees it, means bigger government,” April 6) deserves a response. Apparently, being willing to work hard is not enough if one wishes to characterize as evil all social programs, including Social Security. To compare federal government […]
Published
April 12, 2012

Obama, media unite, paving way for a tyrant

The Affordable Care Act has gone to the Supreme Court, and that event has overshadowed another significant event. The president attempted to single out the oil companies and discriminate against them by removing their business investment write-offs, which every business in America, big or small, enjoys. He did this by claiming it was time to […]
Published
April 12, 2012

Grateful to Legislature for still funding public radio

I was relieved to learn on MPBN’s “Morning Report” that the Legislature, has wisely agreed to retain funding for “Morning Report” and other treasures offered on public radio. The collective stations of MPBM are great places for all Mainers to learn much. This looming issue had become a “political football” and, in the governor’s own […]

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