How one room in labor building got its name

Letters to the Editor

Published
April 11, 2011

How one room in labor building got its name

I want to know which two communities in Maine are about to go bankrupt, as Gov. Paul LePage reported. Has he rescued them from the perils of financial ruin? If so, let’s give his administration kudos. If not, why not? How is LePage helping these communities stay afloat? Or were his remarks a lie to […]
Published
April 11, 2011

Calculating LePage’s input, draw from retirement plan

Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director wrote a letter to the editor published March 22 in which he protested the contents of a column by Mike Tipping. Dan Demeritt disagreed with Tipping’s column for mischaracterizing the governor’s failure to require the same increase in his contribution to his retirement in his budget that he did for […]
Published
April 11, 2011

Workers’ struggles are part of U.S., Maine history

Two views of the nature of workers’ struggles in the United States appeared in this paper on two consecutive days. On March 23, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recounted the tragic story of 146 women and girls, poor workers in a New York City sweatshop in 1911. They all died in a fire while working, […]
Published
April 11, 2011

LePage’s actions mimic ‘behavior of tyrants’

It is distressing that Gov. Paul LePage has removed art from public view at the Department of Labor Complex. This is not the action of the government of a free society, which has fought to protect freedom of expression and freedom of speech, but has been the behavior of tyrants and dictators throughout history. Censorship […]
Published
April 10, 2011

LePage has, in fact, offered us his best side

Amidst all the hullabaloo caused by Gov. Paul LePage’s foot-in-mouth disease, we’ve managed to overlook one very gentlemanly gesture on his part. When he told the NAACP to “Kiss my butt,” he was offering them and us all his best side. David L. Mitchell Madison

Published
April 10, 2011

4th-grader thanks LePage ‘for all of his hard work’

I am 10 years old and in the fourth grade. My family has been teaching me about the history of our country. We discuss things that are happening around the country and in our state. My mom and Grammy have said that the people here have spent too much money, and now we can’t pay […]
Published
April 10, 2011

‘Must we negate one group to recognize another?’

The disrespect that Gov. Paul LePage is showing the labor and artist communities is frighteningly reminiscent of another time –1939. Is this, “Maine, the way life should be”? This is Maine after LePage; elected under false campaigning by 39 percent of the people who naively believed the stealth bully. Is it so difficult to honor […]
Published
April 10, 2011

Veteran supports ban on smoking in private clubs

I served in the military for more than 30 years. I am also a Republican who supports Democratic Rep. Anna Blodgett’s proposed L.D. 1230 to ban smoking in private, veterans clubs. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, less than 35 percent of veterans smoke, including those from Iraq and Afghanistan. Each year at taxpayers’ […]
Published
April 9, 2011

Natural Resources Council hypocrite on environment

My husband and I have been members of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, believing in its mission to protect Maine’s environment. Our enthusiasm dampened, however, when we learned that NRCM was one of 16 members of the 2008 Governor’s Wind Power Task Force, which recommended that 2,700 megawatts of wind capacity be developed on […]
Published
April 9, 2011

Mural showed how hard Maine people have worked

I couldn’t believe what I saw on the local TV news on March 23 about the latest thing our Gov. Paul LePage has done. He seems to have plenty of new sayings about Marden’s staying open in bad weather and for certain people to “kiss my bu–.” That was a really professional saying, to say […]

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