State workers do part to help balance budget

Letters to the Editor

Published
July 29, 2011

State workers do part to help balance budget

I’m proud to be one of the Maine people who work to protect public health and safety and our environment. I work at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, where I am joined by hundreds of hard-working men and women who make sure the quality of our state’s air, water and land are benefiting working […]
Published
July 29, 2011

Are Republican legislators really on our side?

The Maine Compass column, published on July 17, by Sen. David Trahan and Rep. L. Gary Knight, titled “Republican tax plan will generate jobs, benefit low-income families” is a column full of mathematical gymnastics. How is a tax plan giving 43 percent of the benefit to those making more than $100,000 going to help low- […]
Published
July 29, 2011

Medical billing errors can resurrect painful emotions

“Whoops, sorry, incorrect information.” Like Lynn Plourde, I too have experienced billing on the basis of incorrect medical information entered into the computer system, in my case the wrong insurance company. Consequently, a bill for services rendered in October had to be re-submitted, and I am still awaiting the bill — nine months later. Additionally, […]
Published
July 28, 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
July 28, 2011

Leave smokers alone and go after the obese

With regards to Mark Pantermoller’s letter (July 16), I don’t know about leaf eaters, but I’m in full agreement that too many intrude where they are neither wanted nor required. Yeah, I smoke and am tired of this invasive witch-hunt. Now there’s rumblings of making private clubs smoke-free. What part of private is not understood […]

Published
July 28, 2011

St. Albans Summerfest thanks sponsor, volunteers

The St. Albans Summerfest Committee would like to thank the people of Poland Spring for donating bottled water to the St. Albans Summerfest. We have the Nokomis JROTC run the Summerfest games, and with the hot and humid weather on July 16, the water from Poland Spring was a welcome relief and refreshment. Poland Spring […]
Published
July 28, 2011

Cut all the pay of the people in Washington

In answer to Lynne Chick’s letter (July 22), I have emailed both of the senators in Washington about these cuts. Of course, I never heard from either of them. I wish the people in Washington had to live on what we do. Yes, Chick is right: Cut all of their pay; they can afford it. […]
Published
July 28, 2011

More research needed on Atlantic salmon problems

Thank you for the update about lawsuits against dam owners who are accused of mangling Atlantic salmon on their way from the upstream spawning areas into the ocean (Morning Sentinel, July 19). I am concerned about survival of Atlantic salmon in Maine rivers, but I’m very disturbed by the limited scope of what is being […]
Published
July 28, 2011

Bachmanns lovingly help gays overcome addiction

I thought it was so beautiful and loving of Michelle Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, to tell the American people that they practice reparative therapy for gay clients. Think of it, teaching these folks caught in an addiction how to work out of it, through Bible study, prayer and their own human will. Teaching restraint, […]
Published
July 28, 2011

Government can do a lot to fix money problems

Did anyone read the interesting article in the Kennebec Journal on July 4? This article confirms McDonald’s has started using its own oil from its vats to fuel vehicles in the Arab world. This is an option in the U.S. as well. So why do we not take advantage of our natural resources before we […]

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