Community Action agencies fulfill great need

Letters to the Editor

Published
April 15, 2011

Community Action agencies fulfill great need

I am writing this letter in public support of Western Maine Community Action Program in light of proposed federal budget cuts to funding for Community Action agencies nationwide. I don’t think enough people appreciate what an essential role Community Action agencies play in their respective communities. For example, this past heating season the Franklin County […]
Published
April 15, 2011

LePage elected for fiscal responsibility, not culture

Gov. Paul LePage may not be the most refined gentleman we’ve ever had in that position, but why does that matter? He was elected to return the state of Maine to a fiscally responsible position, not to resonate high culture. Anyone who reads Letters to the Editor on a regular basis can’t help but notice […]
Published
April 15, 2011

Voters made mistake when they elected LePage

What a whopping mistake Maine voters made in the last election, by electing Paul LePage as governor. Here is a man who quite obviously doesn’t recognize anyone who is without business credentials. Businesses are successful, however, because of laborers who do the work with pride and integrity, two traits I fail to see in our […]
Published
April 15, 2011

Cable subscribers need digital box to see EWTN

Augusta, Gardiner and Winthrop area Knights of Columbus, through their petition efforts, encouraged Time Warner Cable TV to add Catholic Global TV station EWTN to the basic subscribers package in the Augusta area. Basic subscribers will need a digital box to view EWTN. Time Warner will provide this box free for two years. To obtain […]
Published
April 15, 2011

State has gone from infancy to senility

Before the election, I wrote a letter stating that if Paul LePage was elected governor, our state would go from infancy to senility, without achieving maturity. Well, he’s done a lot of infantile raving, now he’s reached senility wanting to remove art that represents the majority of Mainers. I guess he doesn’t know that a […]

Published
April 15, 2011

Most governors elected with much less than 50%

I offer this to all the LePage-haters who are trying to make a big stand on the fact that Paul LePage was elected on a plurality vote: There has been only one time in the past 25 years when a Maine governor was elected with more than 50 percent of the votes. One time — […]
Published
April 15, 2011

Glad to see micro-brewery day was revived in Maine

On June 13, 1995, we at the Quik-stops of Maine held a micro-brewery day at the Muddy Rudder in Wiscasset to raise money for a young man with cancer. We featured new micros at that time and had nine micros that were just getting started. They grew to become national companies that are very successful […]
Published
April 15, 2011

‘Income redistribution’ going from bottom to top

In all the media coverage of the budget talks these many weeks, why is so little being made of the corollary to spending cuts, namely, increased revenues? To speak of the very wealthy bearing more of the burden usually brings a cry of “income redistribution.” Has it escaped everyone’s attention that we are already seeing […]
Published
April 14, 2011

‘Time value of money’ crucial in pension payout

The letter from Neal Patterson (April 6) describes the state retirement system as “too generous” and “not sustainable.” Patterson presented the pensions of two “random acquaintances,” examining what they had paid into the system, and what they had been paid out of it. His figures were, indeed, unsettling. Then I noticed the flaw in Patterson’s […]
Published
April 14, 2011

DNA bill would exacerbate state’s backlog problem

Rep. Maeghan Maloney (Maine Compass, April 9) describes proposed legislation that would require all persons charged with a serious crime to submit a DNA sample for analysis. While there is no disputing the power of DNA evidence, this bill is misguided and unnecessary. Maine law already requires all convicted felons to submit a DNA sample, […]

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