I want to express my sincere appreciation for Sen. Susan Collins’ leadership in securing $38 million in federal home heating assistance for Maine families in need. As temperatures drop and energy costs continue to rise, this support is essential for seniors, low-income households and the many Mainers who rely on LIHEAP to keep their homes […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Administration misleads us with the term ‘narco-terrorists’ | Letter
Labeling criminals as terrorists wrongly lowers the threshold for lethal force.
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A bad situation is about to get worse for health care in Maine | Letter
The Budget Reconciliation Act (the “big, beautiful bill”), passed in July, called for some changes in health care educational student loan programs that will adversely affect the number of health care professionals in certain fields, some of which are already very short staffed, such as nursing. It calls for the removal of a number of professions from […]
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We’re well into the onset of a dictatorship | Letter
Something’s happening here. What it is is increasingly clear. The autocracy may not solidify, but we’re close. President Trump, rather than uphold the law as he swore to do, succeeds in ignoring the law, or finding ways around it, or loopholes through it. Killing people suspected of ferrying cocaine, claiming it’s fitting because they are […]
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Op-ed on climate change offered hope | Letter
I was encouraged by Prof. Tom Bateman’s Dec. 9 op-ed, “The window of opportunity for productive climate action is still open.” As Bateman says, we have the technology to deal with the climate situation and need only the will to think long-term. Our government is the organization that should be leading us, not holding us […]
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Janet Mills has been fighting from the start | Letter
Stop putting social media above real life.
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Weighing the supposed war on drugs | Letter
I just looked up last year’s totals for deaths related to fentanyl, which was, sadly, about 48,000. Then I looked up tobacco-related deaths and that number was 480,000. I think we’re bombing the wrong “boats.” Jim KavanaghSouth Portland
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Portland’s warming shelter should allow for later departures | Letter
We can all agree that it’s unfortunate, but evidently unavoidable at the moment, I guess, that the warming shelter for the homeless is located way out on Riverside Street, far from where the heaviest concentration of homeless are. But why is it that people are turned out of the shelter at 6:30 a.m.? Early morning […]
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Support the work of service animals — leave your pets at home | Letter
For people with disabilities, navigating shared public spaces is difficult enough as it is.
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Support the Medicare for All Act | Letter
Thank you to Drs. Jeffrey Barkin and Daniel Bryant for their excellent opinion pieces about our health care system in recent Sunday editions. Support for Medicare for All is strong among patients as well as health care professionals. A recent Data for Progress poll finds that 65% of all Americans support a Medicare for All […]