Landfill fees may explain trash along roadsides

Letters to the Editor

Published
October 12, 2011

Landfill fees may explain trash along roadsides

I have just seen an report about trash being left on back roads. I have seen the same thing as I travel about the state, and yes, there has been more of it lately. It might be coming from the attitude at landfills and transfer stations. I needed to dispose of a child’s wading pool […]
Published
October 12, 2011

Gut no tool for judging gas station pricing

The headline on page A1 of Oct. 5 states “Maine gasoline pumps found to be overcharging.” The article quotes Department of Agriculture Commissioner Walt Whitcomb as saying, “Our gut reaction is there isn’t a pattern of intentional deceit.” Since when have public officials relied on their guts to let them know when to take action […]
Published
October 11, 2011

An America without Social Security

The outlines of the tea party Republicans’ plans for abolishing Social Security are based on a system that worked well some years ago: “Social Security shall be abolished. No government agency shall be involved, thus saving vast amounts of money. All responsibility shall be returned to the towns and cities. “Each town shall be responsible […]
Published
October 11, 2011

Variety of leaves like diversity of people

The changing of the leaves, extremes in temperature and the return of football all announce the arrival of autumn to New England. Of all the seasons of our fair state, this is the favorite of many, because its colors have so many layers of meaning. Each tree produces its own colors, and the location, access […]
Published
October 11, 2011

Take vegetables from school lunches?

They want to take what away? I am writing in regards to the recent talks at the national level about all but removing potatoes, corn, peas and lima beans from local school lunches. For years, we have been trying to get our kids to eat their vegetables, and now we’re taking them away? I am […]

Published
October 10, 2011

Red Sox collapse of 2011

The Red Sox collapse of 2011 was capped off by two heartbreaking come-from-behind wins. First, the awful Orioles scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs off Papelbon. Ouch! Then the Rays came back from 7-0 to the Yankees on a game-winning homer in the 12th! Double ouch! To me, it […]
Published
October 10, 2011

GOP trying to suppress votes by young liberals

The Republicans are trying to eliminate same-day voter registration, claiming there is a voter fraud problem. There is no evidence of voter fraud, and they know it. Their real reason is a shameful attempt to try to suppress the votes of younger and more liberal voters who are more likely to register on election day […]
Published
October 10, 2011

Italy admitted mistake, why can’t Maine?

In Italy, prosecutors, seemingly on leave from a comic opera, insisted that “she devil” Amanda Knox was guilty of murder, no matter what science and common sense indicated. It took four years for justice to prevail. Yet in Maine, supposedly a land of sober Yankee rectitude, for more than 20 years Dennis Dechaine has been […]
Published
October 10, 2011

Keep gambling jobs, money in Maine

I would like to ask the media why they are so anti-casino. Are the people profiting from all other gambling venues gagging our local paper? Does sending millions of dollars to Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Atlantic City, etc., make sense? Do we sponsor bus tours to these places? Do we advocate $20 scratch tickets? Does our […]
Published
October 10, 2011

Awlaki murdered without due process of US law

Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and a radical Muslim cleric, was assassinated by the U.S. last week in Yemen. Under U.S. law, lethal force can be employed outside of a war zone, as Awlaki was, only in the narrowest and most extraordinary circumstances: When there is a concrete, specific and imminent threat of an attack. […]

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