The beautiful coastline of Maine apparently now reaches to the Strait of Hormuz. We have a century-old house that uses propane for radiator heat and hot water use. We have always done the annual service contract for supply and maintenance since we moved to Augusta eight years ago. The cost has risen pretty steadily year […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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On Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo | Letter
In 2007, Graham Platner, a Marine from Maine (by his own admission, intoxicated at the time), entered a tattoo parlor in Croatia. He wanted a tattoo. His conscious choice, no matter how intoxicated he may have been, was a skull and crossbones chest tattoo closely resembling a Nazi Totenkopf (“death’s head”). The candidate would have us believe that, at that […]
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Gruters op-ed exhibited more blind allegiance to Trump | Letter
I just read an opinion piece written by Joe Gruters, chairman of the Republican National Committee (“The fight for America’s future has kicked off in Maine,” June 10) . I believe his intent was to promote Sen. Susan Collins over Graham Platner. While I am not necessarily a Platner supporter, what Mr. Gruters professes is […]
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Susan Collins is out of touch | Letter
Last year, during tax time, mail service to my retirement community was so sketchy that I asked the post office for help. They said it was out of their control and I should write my congressional representatives. I did, and each of them answered except for Sen. Susan Collins. Months later, I got a letter […]
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A dirty move for a dirty fuel | Letter
Three hundred thirty United States coal plants have, thankfully, closed, with more to come. Mainers should celebrate that, as pollution from burning coal has worsened lung diseases here for decades. But using a law called the Defense Production Act, President Trump and his Energy Department have just repurposed the money Congress originally passed to clean […]
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Republicans cannot judge Platner with straight faces | Letter
I find it all rather disturbing, and at the same time very amusing, that the Republicans are finding fault with Graham Platner concerning trivial misdemeanors when their Republican, our president, is a convicted felon and has been accused of all of the same offenses as Platner. I am having a very hard time understanding how, […]
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Trump’s outrages must be stopped | Letter
During the past week Donald Trump continued his unauthorized war on Iran, proposed a nearly $2 billion slush fund for his cronies and urged the Senate to give him $70 billion so ICE can evict a million more immigrants, the great majority of whom have committed no crime. Mainers should be outraged. Meanwhile, he and […]
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Voting red will only make you blue | Letter
This is in response to a letter (“If you want positive change in Maine, vote red”), published on June 6, that concluded: “Vote red and see the real changes.” Vote red and see: If we really “see” what “red” has actually done for “the people,” it’s bound to make us blue. Joanne D’UngerLeeds
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‘Meet the Press’ meets the flat-Earth president | Letter
Anyone who has ever seen a sunset on the West Coast knows that the sun looks like it is sinking into the ocean. I would sometimes joke that this proves the Earth is flat. All we had to do was look at what was in front of our eyes. Of course, astronomers have long proven […]
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David Brooks is wrong about Platner, wrong about Maine | Letter
If Platner is “a moral degenerate,” what does that make the rest of us?