The following list of statistics should shock every American to the core: Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007; 32 dead, 17 hurt; Killeen, Texas, Nov. 5, 2009, four dead, 16 hurt; Tucson, Jan. 8, 2011, six dead, 14 hurt; Aurora, July 20, 2012, 12 dead, 70 hurt; Newtown, Dec. 14, 2012, 26 dead; Washington Navy Yard, […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Sen. Collins deserves our thanks
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins once again showed great leadership and demonstrated her support of Maine’s credit unions and other local financial institutions by voting to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rule. Recently, I was part of a group of local credit union officials who met with her and discussed that issue at length. […]
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Voters were not fooled
Kudos to the citizens of Auburn and Lewiston for defeating the proposed merger of the cities. As both Abraham Lincoln and P.T. Barnum were reportedly quoted as saying, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the […]
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Doesn't represent his constituents
I have worked as a personal care assistant, and I have seen so many people who rely on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. Without it, their lives are on the line. Rep. Bruce Poliquin has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut medical benefits for the elderly and Mainers with disabilities. He […]
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Give playwrights their due
Having a brother-in-law who is a playwright and having recently read Moss Hart’s entertaining autobiography “Act One,” I was a little saddened to notice that neither Hart’s name, nor that of George Kaufman, the play’s co-author, were mentioned in the article about Lewiston High School’s upcoming production of “You Can’t Take It With You.” I’m […]
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Better ways to alert the public
Recently, there was a tragic hunting accident in Hebron. A young woman was killed while on her own property. My understanding is that she was not wearing orange and, in fact, was unaware that hunting season had started. I live in South Paris, right next to Hebron, and I am in the woods walking my […]
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Give taxpayers a break
Does money always make a difference? Teaches in SAD 52 are unhappy with their current wages, pointing out they could make more in surrounding towns. I think the taxpayers in the three towns that support SAD 52 need a break on their taxes. Being part of the town of Greene Budget Committee for 27 years, […]
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Against the voices of the people
How discouraged we were to find that the Maine Legislature has, once again, voted against the will of the people by repealing the results of the citizens’ ranked-choice voting referendum passed in 2016. Less than a year after the second largest majority of voters in the history of citizen initiatives approved ranked-choice voting, the Legislature […]
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Who pays for Medicaid expansion?
I write this in response to the Sun Journal front page article “Expanding Medicaid a hot issue” (Nov. 3). Anyone reading that article might want to step into a restroom and, when reading the second paragraph where it is stated that the federal government will be paying for 90 percent of the tab, stop for […]
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Stop seeing the differences
I am a new faculty member at UMF and recently I attended a vigil organized by two of our students from Maine’s Somali community — an observance of the Oct. 17 bombing in Mogadishu. I did not go to the vigil because I knew the students (I don’t), or out of a sense of faculty […]