Maybe NASA funds could be better used at home

Letters to the Editor

Published
December 14, 2011

Maybe NASA funds could be better used at home

Since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed the benefits from the innovations and inventions made available and possible by the space program, NASA. I also love to watch the film from Mars, the Moon and the pictures from space probes and the Hubble telescope. It’s a great program and necessary, I guess, but I think […]
Published
December 14, 2011

Loyal tea party Republicans asked to donate to Cain

It was with great sadness that I watched Herman Cain’s speech announcing his decision to suspend his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Mark Twain and Sinclair Lewis would have been hard-pressed to write a more fitting speech. America needs Herman Cain. What goes on between a man and his mistresses is not the business of […]
Published
December 13, 2011

Section in Senate bill betrays Americans

Americans are being betrayed by members of Congress who slipped Section 1031 into the National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Bill 1867): “Congress affirms that the authority of the President…includes the authority for the Armed Forces to detain covered persons…” (those accused of terrorist acts or connections) “without trial until the end of hostilities….” Remember Jose […]
Published
December 13, 2011

Challenge for people worried about state’s poor

A gathering, planned for the Hall of Flags at 10 a.m. Wednesday, is being organized by agencies who serve the poor in Maine as a comment on the current administration’s policies that effect the disenfranchised. I would like to challenge anyone who is concerned about the conditions of those who are least able to defend […]
Published
December 13, 2011

More important topics than grubby shoppers

Gee, after reading Liz Soares’ noxious diatribe about the woman who wore her grubbies to the store, I think I’ll have to buy a tux for the next time I go to the grocery store. Soares might be standing behind me in line, waiting to out me. And no, I don’t look in the mirror […]

Published
December 12, 2011

Support Occupy movement; it is genuine democracy

Those of us who claim to value democracy and the democratic process should speak out in support of the Occupy movement. We are privileged, in these difficult times, to be witness to citizens who are acting in the spirit of American democracy at its best, and giving birth to a social movement that is truly […]
Published
December 12, 2011

We 99 percenters have power against the 1 percent

Let’s boycott the 1 percent. I’m sure that’s a simplistic answer, but still it contains a lot of power. What if we, the 99 percent, all tried to get our basics — food, clothing and shelter — as locally as possible? Skip the big stores. Ignore the ads. Why do we think we need what […]
Published
December 12, 2011

Why are working poor being punished again?

The working poor get stiffed again. “LePage: State can’t afford MaineCare for childless adults.” The adults that the governor and society allow to work for an inadequate income often have no disability or health insurance through their employers. They inevitably get hurt, disabled or just grow old, and have nowhere to turn but to the […]
Published
December 12, 2011

Tourists expect working high-speed Internet access

Each year, thousands of tourists come to Maine, in part to get away from it all. We also have learned that many of these visitors don’t want to be entirely cut off from their online lives. They still want access to the Internet, email and the many applications that run on smartphones and tablets. In […]
Published
December 11, 2011

Gross inequity of salary increases over 20 years

William J. McDonough, a former chief executive officer of one of Chicago’s largest banks, recently gave some astounding figures about executive compensation. In 1980, he says, the average large company’s CEO made 40 times more than the average worker in his or her firm. By 2000, the multiple had risen to at least 400 times. […]

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