Kids, parents, teachers all responsible for learning

Letters to the Editor

Published
April 8, 2011

Kids, parents, teachers all responsible for learning

This letter is in response to Mark Pantermoller’s letter (March 21) regarding who is to blame when children don’t learn. I think that Pantermoller may be partially correct when he says that it is the children who are to blame when they do not learn. But as a student and a child myself, I think […]
Published
April 8, 2011

‘Gardasil is a different ball game’ of vaccines

In response to “Vaccines given early protect later, when needed” (letter, March 26), Marty Soule defends the use of Gardasil. She says, “Immunization given early in life allows our immune system to prepare so that it can protect us from disease later in life.” This may be true in some vaccines, but Gardasil is a […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Have we created a monster in LePage?

As far as I’m concerned, politics has gone full swing back to the 1800s, the days of bullies, innuendos and half-baked ideas. Back then, a good candidate, the one welcomed by those looking for changes and who didn’t care how the changes came about, had everyone’s attention. With that attention, the candidate could say anything […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Children saved lives of kittens left to die

Two children saved lives tonight. Two beautiful kittens were put in a Sunkist 12-pack box wrapped in blue duct tape and left to die at Oosoola Park here in Norridgewock. The kittens had no water, food or any chance of survival against the cold night had it not been for these kids. I would like […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Government money used for mural, but not war heroes

In years past, I was asked and did donate to the Vietnam memorial and the World War II memorial. Government money could not be used to honor our war heroes. Today, I see that government money was used to pay to honor unions with a mural at the expense of the 75 percent of open-shop […]

Published
April 8, 2011

O’Keefe goes undercover to expose agencies’ fraud

I disagree with David B. Offer’s assessment of James O’Keefe. Offer says it is unfair that O’Keefe goes undercover, as was the case with Acorn and now NPR. I’m fine with O’Keefe. With his undercover work, he is exposing the fraud that lies within these agencies. Let’s think back to the Acorn unveilings in which […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Did LePage really have authority to remove mural?

Gov. Paul LePage — yikes! It appears that some letters to the governor moved the mountain. These complaints managed to bring about an order by Maine’s leader to remove the 11-panel mural that recently hung in the lobby of the Maine Department of Labor. This artwork depicted the history of labor struggles in Maine and […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Tax policy hasn’t worked, should be changed

Joseph Reisert’s column on March 25, “Pain from budget cuts inevitable, but do we have a choice?” misses the mark entirely. He claims that there really is no alternative to our governor’s proposed budget. That budget would cut state employee benefits, “reform the state’s welfare programs” (which apparently is another way of describing huge cuts […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Businesses need labor, just as labor needs businesses

I would like to suggest that Gov. Paul LePage replace the murals in the Department of Labor with those giving the “business” point of view. May I suggest one of the Ludlow Mine strike in 1914, with the National Guard shooting women and children, or the Columbine Mine massacre by the local militia in 1927. […]
Published
April 8, 2011

Tourists boycott places they find politically offensive

Gov. Paul LePage has been very efficient in the number of people he has managed to offend with a single decree. In taking down the mural in the Department of Labor depicting events from the history of labor in Maine, he has offended artists, historians, labor activists, union members, art historians and many of us […]

Sign In: