Make yourself heard on pension tax proposal

Letters to the Editor

Published
August 4, 2011

Make yourself heard on pension tax proposal

Saturday, July 23, Page B4 of the Kennebec Journal — buried in an article on Gov. Paul LePage addressing wood-based jobs, is his mention of not taxing pensions. People who favor this proposal, should make themselves heard. Charles Jones Augusta
Published
August 4, 2011

Readfield voters already had their say

What about the word “no” don’t the selectboard, town manager and others of Readfield understand? The voters of Readfield voted “no” on the maintenance building on June 7, and “yes” to abolish the public works. The voters of Readfield have spoken. Let’s get moving and get down to business. Carolyn Armstrong Readfield
Published
August 4, 2011

A shame what Chelsea has come to

I was a citizen of Chelsea for more than 50 years, moving to Augusta in 2000. I think the town did the right thing to get the clique of Carol Swan out of the town. Flavia Kelley shouldn’t get a cent. My family lived in the town on Pinkham Road for more than 90 years. […]
Published
August 4, 2011

Grandma asks speeders to think of family

I live on Hankerson Road, in a little dip right in up at the beginning of the road. I’ve lived here for about seven years and like our little place in this town. I have a beautiful new granddaughter, my first grandchild, who I think of day and night (new grandmas will understand what I […]
Published
August 3, 2011

Letter about welfare causes feeling of shame

It has been quite a while since I wrote a letter to the editor. “What is wrong with working for a living?” (July 17) provoked me. I thought about things and slept on it. When I got up, I felt the same: Shame. Even though I don’t really think I’ve done anything wrong. I get […]

Published
August 3, 2011

Heat didn’t dissuade patrons of Arts Fest

Many friends of art traveled to downtown Waterville on Saturday to celebrate the 42nd year of Arts Fest despite the sweltering heat. It takes guts, determination, sacrifice and true loyalty to walk the blistering sidewalks to view paintings in spite of sweat trickling down, fog gathering in sunglasses, excess thirst caused by the beating sun […]
Published
August 3, 2011

Paper should curtail online comments about tragedies

I would like to see the Morning Sentinel (and all newspapers) remove readers’ ability to comment online about the paper’s accident and tragedy articles. They should save their comments for politics and sports. People in close connection with these real-life happenings are quite vulnerable and shouldn’t have to read a stranger’s opinion and judgments during […]
Published
August 3, 2011

GE head not right person for job growth task force

Buried on page D4 of the July 26 Morning Sentinel was a small story about GE Healthcare’s “…moving its 100-year-old X-ray division to China…”. This is a rather straightforward, typical big-business approach to increase profitability. I know, since I used to work for GE. What confounds me is that President Barack Obama called on Jeff […]
Published
August 2, 2011

Frary needs to shed his partisan loathing

It may be true that hostility is the reward for speaking certain truths. A wise man learns to accept this; a partisan, to embrace it. John Frary wrote a piece July 24 that truly paints an interesting portrait of our governor, but wraps it in partisan loathing that all but ensures the message won’t get […]
Published
August 2, 2011

So what’s wrong with college kids voting?

I am outraged at Maine Republican Party Chairman Charles Webster’s witch hunt trying to find a few cases of voter fraud to justify taking away citizens’ right to register to vote on Election Day. The law already has been passed, and now he is conducting a private study to justify it. Why was this issue […]

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