Maine will become a dangerous place for vulnerable people if the new assisted-suicide law goes into effect. Reckless laws like L.D. 1313 automatically place them at risk for mistakes, coercion and abuse. Mistaken prognoses can occur and have in many cases. These laws depend upon a doctor’s accurate prediction that a patient has six months […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Resources are out there to help victims of elder abuse
I am writing this letter to introduce the website Lifting Up the Voices (www.liftingupvoices.net) and to bring information to and awareness of seniors living with abuse and the professionals who work with clients in abusive relationships. The National Clearinghouse for Abuse in Later Life interviewed numerous people throughout the United States to participate in this […]
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Calling all military retirees
The annual Northern New England Military Retiree Activity Day will be held Saturday, Sept. 14, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New Hampshire National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility, 26 Regional Drive (behind the military helicopter display), in Concord, N.H. All military retired personnel, gray area retirees and families, including those of deceased […]
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Charge employers in immigration raid
As a retired plant manager, I am very familiar with employer requirements of E-Verify and Form I-9. The unsealed search warrants for the five poultry companies that were raided by immigration authorities clearly indicate the companies knowingly hired undocumented workers (“Largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests,” Aug. 7). As of yet, […]
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Congress must hold Big Pharma accountable
Patients across Maine are grappling with the high prices of prescription drugs. While patients are going to extreme measures to pay for their medication, drug companies have raised prices on almost 3,500 drugs in the first six months of the year. It’s time for Congress to take action. Lawmakers have a prime opportunity to hold […]
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Assault weapons ban’s opponents share guilt
The veiled encouragement toward racism and violence by Donald Trump at his alleys has surely attributed to the increase in mass carnage by white supremacist over the past two and a half years. I would go one step further and lay all the killings by assault type weapons since 2004 directly on the door step […]
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Harvest the smaller fish, release the bigger ones
Re: “Why catch-and-release is killing, not conserving, Maine fisheries” (Aug. 11): There’s no doubt that the smaller of a species is a competitive risk for development and growth. Larger fish, e.g., togue, landlocked salmon and brook trout, actually are not the voracious consumers of smelt or other smaller fish. Just remember how much food you […]
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Do your part to help asylum seekers
Steve and Molly Saunders spoke recently at the Cary Memorial Library in Wayne. Former Peace Corps volunteers in El Salvador, they were recruited as volunteer translators in El Paso for people seeking asylum at our Southern border. As fate would have it, during their stay they actually visited the Walmart where 20 people were recently […]
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Hold tech companies responsible for cyberbullying
I read your Aug. 8 editorial, “Cyberbullying not responding to school efforts,” with interest. I agree with the editorial’s perspective that schools should have the tools they need, to do their job. But given the incredible increase in the needs of Maine kids resulting from poverty, the opioid epidemic, food insecurity, etc. and given our […]
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Plant-based diet crucial for climate
“Climate change threatens world food supply” is the headline wake-up alarm being sounded by leading newspapers. It was prompted by the release of a summary report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), staffed by more than 100 experts from 52 countries. The report details how climate change is threatening our world’s […]