Take vegetables from school lunches?

Letters to the Editor

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. […]
Published
October 9, 2011

American Jobs Act just a stack of recycled papers

I write in response to the letter, “While GOP plays politics, Obama builds jobs” (letter, Sept. 27). The American Jobs Act is nothing more than a stack of recycled papers. Barack Obama’s own Democratic Party controls the Senate and won’t put its leader’s jobs bill on the schedule. In fact, when the Democrats controlled both […]
Published
October 9, 2011

Bible no defense for hateful sentiment

I’d like to extract some key words Elaine Graham used in her letter of Sept. 29, that she used to describe Maine’s LGTB citizens: Bizarre, perverse, unholy, unwholesome, unhealthy and unnatural. Graham expressed her true feelings by employing those demoralizing words. To universally strike down by means of terrorizing language gay unions of any type […]
Published
October 9, 2011

It’s important to look at world from every angle

I was impressed with the cartoon on the newspaper’s opinion page of Sept. 27. It depicted a chair on the left with a set of papers marked “peace talks .” Next to it was an Israeli flag. On the opposite side of the table was another chair, “peace talk” papers and a Palestinian flag. Only […]
Published
October 9, 2011

Seeking info about relatives’ descendants

My late father’s uncle, Joseph Thomas Gosnay, and cousin, Thomas Froggett Gosnay, immigrated to America in 1876. I understand that the cousin became a plate printer and worked on a newspaper in Maine. They used to write to my father, but later we lost contact. I recollect that my father mentioned a Helen Parker as […]

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