The following letters were written by students in Lucy Rioux’s seventh-grade accelerated reading program from Oak Hill Middle School in Sabattus. The letters were composed in mid-December, before the winter holidays, and reflect issues they found interesting at that time. A scary situation I write in response to an article I found on the Sun […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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ACA has been a life saver
The Affordable Care Act is under attack by Congress — as are other health issues such as Medicare and Medicaid. In this assault, the well-being of more than 70,000 Mainers who have gained health care under the ACA — not to mention the 20 million nationwide — could be wiped out in a single Congressional […]
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Make it work in Maine
Does it make any sense for each individual community to have its own school department, school board and school budget? Are we now facing a time when change should be considered? Administrative costs and management of all those schools continues to rise faster than the cost to pay teachers and provide needed supplies for students. […]
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Costs go up, country goes down
The price of commodities will always go up. Will raising the minimum wage be a benefit or a panacea? Imagine being a retiree, living on Social Security. Hopefully, your mortgage and car are paid for, leaving food, health care, heat and such other necessary things as water/sewer, real estate taxes, insurances, electricity, telephone and any […]
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Forgetting the voters’ will
Gov. Paul LePage’s message to voters: It is important for all eligible voters to get out there and vote — as long as you vote the way I tell you to. Getting what he wants no matter what the majority thinks seems to be LePage’s own personal form of democracy. He is also under the […]
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Tired of what is happening
I cannot believe that Maine state officials can be so mean. I just got a letter from the state saying that, since I got a $2 raise from Social Security, my food stamps allotment will be lowered by that same amount. What a bunch of soulless, mean-spirited administrators. That is what they do to senior […]
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Medicare for all
Now that this nation is going to be faced with a full-blown attempt to get rid of the Affordable Care Act (with no idea of what will replace it), this is a perfect time for people to raise their voices in favor of the only health care finance system that will work, long term, for […]
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A kindness shown
On Sunday, Jan. 8, my 93-year-old father was shoveling the 2 to 3 inches of snow from his driveway in Lewiston. Our families live several miles away, and it’s difficult to get there before he gets all the work done himself. But on that day, a Lewiston Police officer was passing by and stopped his […]
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Has an infant’s life been devalued?
Two recent judicial decisions in Maine disturb me. A mother was given a 10-to-15 year sentence for manslaughter. She put her newborn baby in a box and placed it, unattended, in a cold garage. Of course, the baby died. Didn’t the mother intend for her baby to die? Why is that not first-degree murder? Has […]
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Give them a baby pacifier
The Democratic Party has been taken over by vicious left-wingers. It is no longer the party for the working people as it was generations ago. The Democratic Party is so radically left wing that it has the once dynamic middle class in America reeling. Fewer people are in the work force and that translates into […]