Mainers have a long tradition of self-reliance and determination. But the ability to heat and light homes and businesses with clean solar energy is being crushed by years of inaction on sensible solar policy. Last year the Legislature, with overwhelming public support, passed a comprehensive solar policy, which Gov. Paul LePage vetoed. Now Maine’s Public […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Chin inspired me to get involved
Two years back, I was deeply frustrated with the political leaders in Maine and Lewiston. Every time I read a local headline, I was embarrassed, saddened and shocked. Then, a young man who was running for mayor of Lewiston, Ben Chin, inspired me to get involved politically — for the first time in my life. […]
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Working poor will suffer
The verdict on the Republican plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act is out. The Congressional Budget Office agrees with the Kaiser Family Foundation and other nonpartisan public health analyses that the Republican plan would cause millions of Americans, and tens of thousands of Mainers, to lose health insurance in its very first […]
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Cull the elderly, sick and poor
“American values” no longer extend to the least among us. The proposed health care replacement plan is the equivalent of elected officials shutting their eyes and putting their hands over their ears, singing “La, La, La” in their heads, while our elderly parents, sick brothers, sisters and children die in our arms. The plan would […]
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Concerning illegal aliens
A number of non-citizens causing concern include illegal aliens, foreign visitors who overstay their time, and legal immigrants from terrorist countries. An estimated 11,000,000 illegal aliens are in the United States currently. The situation has deteriorated into a national security problem and made worse by “sanctuary cities,” where local police are forbidden to ask the […]
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Nation deserves better
I agree with the sentiments expressed in letters by Ellen Field, Eileen Fair and Carole Richards (March 11). Michael Flynn is exposed as a foreign agent, pocketing $530,000 for his lobbying efforts. Ben Carson, President Trump’s HUD secretary, claims that slaves came to America as immigrants seeking a better life. Jeff Sessions and Trump’s son-in-law […]
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Build the wall
The March 2017 issue of Judicial Watch’s pamphlet “Verdict” includes the following statements: “… Earlier this year, Judicial Watch obtained State Department documents showing that for more than a decade the U.S. government has known that ‘Arab extremists’ are entering the country through Mexico … classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA). … Once in the […]
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Repeating history
A loose translation from someone whose name I cannot recall went something like “Anyone who ignores their history is doomed to repeat it.” Well, let’s see … China once built the largest wall in the world, but the Mongols had little trouble in destroying the then Chinese empire. East Berlin thought a wall was a […]
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Try the old-fashioned way
This is in regard to Poland High School’s “restorative circles” (Sun Journal, March 12). Awww — what will Assistant Principal Patrick Flynn try next, group hugs and an award for participating? I have a novel idea: Have the student write a few hundred times on the blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard (or whatever board it’s called nowadays) […]
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The Pentagon bloat
I have been meaning to write this letter since December, when I read an article in the Washington Post that detailed some interesting figures about Pentagon spending. Now, I read that the White House is proposing major cuts to important domestic programs in order to fund a $54 billion increase to the already bloated Defense […]