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PublishedMay 21, 2012
Chemical sensitivity woes far-reaching, common
Thank you Carrie Johnston for your informative letter, “Chemical sensitivity man-made, debilitating,” dated May 11. My wife is a beautician, has been for almost 45 years. Because of that, however, she has developed asthma. She can no longer do perms, dyes or bleaches. She can only do haircuts now. We went to an environmentalist specialist. […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Save jobs; boycott self-checkout machines
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The trouble isn’t so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind.” This thought leads to my proposal that need not be enacted by any legislature. This proposal can only be passed or vetoed by each person’s own conscience. It’s common to […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Service members sacrifice much at home, abroad
Today, May 19 is Armed Forces Day. I would like to remind everybody on this Armed Forces Day about how much our men and women now serving are sacrificing at home and all over the world, on our more than 800 bases, to protect our freedoms. Whether deployed in combat and non-combat situations, overseas or […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Ashamed of cuts to poor who rely on government aid
When I read in the paper about the cuts in services that the state has provided for low-income folk — MaineCare, health care coverage for more than 20,000 people, prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and funding for Head Start — I was ashamed. Ashamed that this country, with all its wealth, would be reduced […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
LePage’s attempting to reinstate fiscal sanity
Lately, the demise of common sense and logic across the country and the world appears to be reaching warp speed, locally representative of Peter Sirois’ May 5 letter to the editor and globally by the recent assertion that dinosaur flatulence may have contributed to that era’s global warming. Do people really think Gov. Paul LePage’s […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
LePage is lazy, takes easy roads instead of working
Let’s face it: Paul LePage is one lazy governor. Instead of finding ways to identify specific abuses he alleges happen within our state’s safety net, he follows a lazy no-effort path and proposes blaming whole classifications of people and pulling the rug out from under them. Ignoring the ineptitude and withholding reporting of computer problems […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
GOP convention an interesting lesson in democracy
The 2012 Maine Republican State Convention was an interesting lesson in democracy. Here are some of the things I learned: 1. The Republican Party has allocated such a large number of delegates to each town that the convention is unmanageable if they all actually show up. This year, we had many citizens who were concerned […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Near-breach of Togus data handled expertly by team
Thank you for your fair and objective coverage of the near-breach of data at Togus VA hospital. Compliments as well on using front page refer to bring it to my attention. More topically, learning about this made me proud as a U.S. taxpayer supporting federal privacy/information security programs, and affirmed my work as an information […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Woman must walk in her own hell every day
I manage the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen in Augusta. Every day, I am witness to the cruelty of mental illness and the way it skews a person’s perception of reality. For nine years, Tonia Porter (article, May 12) volunteered two days a week at the soup kitchen. She always arrived on time, neatly dressed, […]
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PublishedMay 20, 2012
Has economy gotten better in the last week or so?
The mainstream media here in Maine and elsewhere has, for the most part, lavished fulsome praise on Presi-dent Barack Obama for his coming out in favor of same-sex marriage. Among his reasons for doing so he cited the Golden Rule — do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Meanwhile, has the […]
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