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Letters to the Editor

Published
September 9, 2013

Many different signs welcome tourists to Maine

Welcome tourists. Please enjoy your stay. You know you have arrived when you see this sign on the Maine Turnpike: "Welcome to Maine! The way life should be!"
Published
September 9, 2013

Vets cemetery conditions deplorable, disgraceful

I am writing to address the deplorable and disgraceful condition of Section R at the Veterans Cemetery in Augusta. I arrived in July from North Carolina and found the area dug up because of the headstone restoration project.
Published
September 9, 2013

We need answers to hard questions about Syria

The United States incinerated more civilians in three days at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than have died in four years of civil war in Syria, yet it can take the high moral ground when it comes to the use of weapons of mass destruction?
Published
September 8, 2013

Finally, recognition for WWII pilot from our area

This letter is about one of South China's finest. Alfred Kramer, a World War II B-17 pilot, was shot down over France returning from a bombing raid on Germany. The French resistance aided him in a safe return to England.
Published
September 8, 2013

Legislators urged to accept federal Medicaid funds

Maine recently received a $33 million federal grant to improve efficiency and service in Medicare, Medicaid and the private health care market -- an important step.

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Published
September 8, 2013

Climate change ‘makes all other crises irrelevant’

I am encouraged to find out from Dana Milbank's Commentary on Aug. 27 that post-civil-rights rebels are looking for a unifying cause.
Published
September 7, 2013

Legislature should pass uninsured motorist law

Solutions to the problem of uninsured motorists have been proposed in the past. A while ago, an insurance agent told me that a bill to remedy the problem was turned down by our Legislature.
Published
September 7, 2013

Doing what is right is in America’s best interest

Just think how many American lives could have been saved and how much money our country could have saved if instead of going to war against Adolf Hitler for his attempts to eliminate Jews and other "undesirables," we just sat on the sidelines and watched.
Published
September 7, 2013

US should help negotiate settlement in Syria

I will be the first person to admit I don't know all the background and issues associated with the Syrian conflict. It's clear to me, however, that the recent deaths of hundreds of civilians by poison gas is a totally unacceptable escalation.
Published
September 6, 2013

Indicted restaurateur not an asset to Waterville

This is in regards to the recent Morning Sentinel story about Hector Fuentes, a Waterville restaurateur ("Neighbors stand by owner of Cancun," Aug. 22).