Letters to the Editor - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

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Letters to the Editor

Published
January 9, 2013

We shouldn’t toss aside national postal service

This letter is about the U.S. Postal Service, with the word "service" underlined.
Published
January 9, 2013

Why do we subsidize adopted children?

In a Dec. 29 article, Therese Cahill-Low, director of Child and Family Services, said the state of Maine pays a daily subsidy of $26.25 per day for each adopted child until each child turns 18, for a total of $10 million per year.
Published
January 8, 2013

Map, list of gun owners a path for revenge

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy, The Journal News (New York) on Dec. 23 published "in the best interest of the public" an interactive map with names and addresses of gun owners in a tri-county area. As a result of their actions, they have put many people in harm's way. More than 8,000 NYPD law enforcement officials, both retired and active, are listed on that map (40 percent of the names).
Published
January 8, 2013

Second Amendment might have been mistake

The Second Amendment has been bi-sected, tri-sected and quadri-sected. I am going to cinque-sect it.
Published
January 8, 2013

Maybe we’re overpaying for hospital care

According to newspaper reports, the state owes Maine hospitals more than $100 million and has around another $100 million in debt.

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Published
January 7, 2013

Obama sets up US for more debt than ever

President Barack Obama can pat himself on the back; he has extended the G.W. Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans.
Published
January 7, 2013

Reisert column merely assails president’s speech

Professor Joseph Reisert begins his column about gun ownership by actually agreeing that President Barack Obama is right on at least one point.
Published
January 7, 2013

More guns no solution to the problem of violence

Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, is half-right. If every school in America had armed guards, it would be somewhat more difficult to launch the kind of massacre visited on Newtown, Conn.
Published
January 7, 2013

To prevent shootings gun laws need to be loosened

Ask yourself: If you were mentally unstable and wanted to cause harm, would you take your arsenal and shoot up a police convention or a school? Without a doubt, you would pick a school, because if you did so at the convention your efforts would be thwarted by multiple guns firing back at you.
Published
January 6, 2013

Gun culture promotes using them against other humans

The shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was a terrible tragedy. But the National Rifle Association's proposal of having armed guards in every school in the country makes such horrible events even more likely, not less.