Letters
Saturday, May 26, 2012: Favoritism in school sports, gun ownership and RSU withdrawal
on May 25, 2012, at 4:23 p.m.
Editor’s note: A letter titled “RSU Choice” that ran in Friday’s paper was resubmitted by the author. It did not appear in the online edition of Letters to the Editor. What does a coach really mean to me? A coach should be someone who mentors, reassures, teaches, critiques, positively influences ...
Friday, May 25: Religion and Rick Bennett
on May 24, 2012, at 3:20 p.m.
Define religious Regarding, “ Got Faith?” in the BDN weekend edition, perhaps it’s not so much that people are dropping religion, but rather that we have internalized the education. We no longer seek it, because we are the teachings and live them out everyday. For example, it has been implied ...
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Thursday, May 24: Getting old, Sen. Cynthia Dill’s attacks on sportsmen
on May 23, 2012, at 4:34 p.m.
Civil discussion Why is it that so many people seem to have lost the ability to engage in a civil and polite discussion about a difficult topic? In its weekend edition (May 19-20) the BDN published an excellent front page article titled, “Got Faith?” Judy Harrison, the author of the ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012: Clean air, why Ron Paul is harmful
on May 22, 2012, at 3:58 p.m.
Hurting in Maine Gov. Paul LePage may get what he wants: sick, disadvantaged, unemployed and disabled people will have to move out of Maine. During the 1980s many people, especially those with mental health issues, flocked here in droves because the services were so good. Maine is a state in ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012: The war on poverty, nurses’ disturbing TV ad
on May 21, 2012, at 3:38 p.m.
Portland panhandling I am struck by the impact the story of Don Deitz, the homeless man in ” Panhandling in Portland” has had on me. As I completed the story of his struggle and the concern of property owners and merchants in Portland on what impact the increase in panhandling ...
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Monday, May 21, 2012: East-west highway, social security and state budget
on May 20, 2012, at 2:50 p.m.
East-west highway good or bad Repair of our crumbling roads is delayed due to lack of funding. Yet, our government is spending $300,000 from the Maine Department of Transportation’s Highway Maintenance Fund to study whether or not to build a $2 billion private toll road running across the northern half ...
Saturday/Sunday, May 19-20, 2012: LePage’s middle management comments, Syria and oil addiction
on May 18, 2012, at 3:38 p.m.
LePage support To all those who are so incensed by Gov. LePage calling state middle management corrupt; speaking from firsthand experience, I would say that Gov. LePage called it like it is. There is a large group of us who were contracted by the state to provide care services to our most vulnerable ...
Friday, May 18, 2012: Clean air, east-west highway and Armed Forces Day
on May 17, 2012, at 3:04 p.m.
Toxic protection On behalf of the Leadership Board of the American Lung Association of Maine, I would like to commend former Attorney General Steve Rowe for his thoughtful letter, “ Support for carbon rule follows Maine’s lead”, and for his work in public service to protect the health of Maine ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012: Voting rights, Cynthia Dill and UM graduation woes
on May 16, 2012, at 12:45 p.m.
Tax representation The Boston Tea Party, a model for the current conservative movement, was based on demands for “no taxation without representation.” As the backing of the original Tea Party by wealthy merchants has been obscured by history, and the funding of its current namesake by wealthy ideologues is ignored ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012: University of Maine gets an F, paying for health care
on May 15, 2012, at 5:23 p.m.
Youth at Maine GOP convention I am a senior in high school and was honored to be a delegate for Ron Paul to the Maine State Republican Convention recently. I was so excited when I arrived at the Convention Center Saturday morning to see so many Ron Paul supporters in ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012: BPA, same-sex marriage and Tony Blair
on May 14, 2012, at 3:59 p.m.
BPA health problems As a citizen of the United States, accompanied by countless residents of Maine, I wish to thank my state legislators for supporting strong public health laws in Maine which protect against toxic chemicals linked to rises in cancers and other serious health problems. As a doctor, I ...
Monday, May 14, 2012: Tony Blair, nurses and Paul Bunyan
on May 13, 2012, at 3:46 p.m.
They represent who? It’s no surprise that workers’ compensation insurance companies such as MEMIC and others are lobbying the Legislature to raise their profit levels while the benefit cost of workers’ comp has dropped by more than 60 percent over the last several years. Republicans love this and hate the ...
Saturday/Sunday, May 12-13, 2012: College costs, wind power and the east-west highway
on May 11, 2012, at 11:50 a.m.
UMaine costs In his OpEd piece in the BDN on Wednesday, May 2, Sam Adolphsen of the Maine Heritage Policy Center criticized the University of Maine for jacking up tuition costs by 30 percent while “university salaries were up 29 percent.” I can’t speak for other parts of the University ...
Friday, May 11, 2012: Dennis Dechaine, income taxes and the east-west highway
on May 10, 2012, at 2:32 p.m.
Cleaner Maine Coal-fired power plants are one of the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide in the county. Right now, these polluters are free to dump unlimited amounts of CO2 into our air. This unregulated air pollution contributes to smog pollution, triggering asthma attacks and permanently damaging the developing lungs of ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012: Angus’ beef, labor unions and the Republican Party
on May 09, 2012, at 3:01 p.m.
Where’s the beef? A number of my friends seem to be assuming because Angus King was a feel-good governor during a reasonably pleasant economic time, because as an independent he hasn’t been tarred by the vexatious partisan obstructionism of national Republican legislators (including our two senators, by the way) and ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012: Dennis Dechaine, Cary Weston and Olympia Snowe
on May 08, 2012, at 3:32 p.m.
Extreme malfunction Recent exonerations in Virginia and Colorado of men wrongfully convicted of murder in the 1990s bring to mind Maine’s Dennis Dechaine, who has been imprisoned for nearly 24 years following a murder conviction that has wrongful written all over it. The Virginia verdict against Michael Wayne Hash was ...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012: Bipartisanship, priest abuse allegations and student loans
on May 07, 2012, at 11:58 a.m.
Bipartisan state I was heartened to read in Tuesday’s paper that Sen. Roger Katz and Rep. Patrick Flood spoke out against Gov. LePage’s most recent diatribe against our state workers. As the Republican chairs of the Appropriations Committee, such a protest is both brave and appropriate. Lawmakers from either party ...
Monday, May 7, 2011: Ted Nugent, east-west corridor and state employees
on May 06, 2012, at 5:34 p.m.
Nugent’s comments As reported several times recently, Ted Nugent said: “If Barack Obama becomes president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” Your regular guest columnist, Republican political strategist Matthew Gagnon explains Nugent’s intent away by stating ( BDN, April 26, ...
Saturday/Sunday, May 5-6, 2012: LePage’s leadership, drug addiction and education
on May 04, 2012, at 4:00 p.m.
Who wants to work for the state of Maine? I am stunned by the recent accusations of our governor that his own middle managers are corrupt and beyond his control. The governor made these accusations without providing a shred of evidence to support them. My guess is that the governor ...
Friday, May 4, 2012: Defining marriage, postal reform and Ted Nugent
on May 03, 2012, at 2:52 p.m.
Marriage response In response to Mike McCabe’s letter to the editor on April 12: Definitions of words, by their very nature, change by being part of human language. The word “marriage” can be defined according to the user and the society. Many words have had definition changes because of societal ...
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