Childhood lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn is a significant and persistent public health issue. Children in our community are poisoned at a rate three times higher than the rest of Maine. They live, learn, play, eat, pray and sleep in homes that are laced with deteriorating lead paint. Lead is a neurotoxin that permanently harms the […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Clinton voters are uninformed
This is in response to Ronald Melendy’s letter (July 19). His closing sentence read, “How can any intelligent, logical, rational citizen even consider voting for such a poor excuse of a man” — meaning Donald Trump. I can answer that one very easily. First of all, Trump is running against a criminal, a renowned liar, […]
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Exploring the pluses and minuses
I like Leroy Walker, but I am not enthusiastic about his repeated letters to the editor opposing the efforts of the Lewiston Auburn Charter Commission to gather facts about the possible merger of Lewiston and Auburn. The commission is not conducting a “crusade” to merge the cities. It is only exploring the pluses and minuses […]
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Quite the sales pitch
Robert Samuelson’s column July 20 is reassuring to readers who question the feasibility of Donald Trump’s plans and his qualifications to lead. When watching and listening to Trump and his magic act, this is one senior who is reminded of the sales people years ago on the Old Orchard Beach pier, who were peddling kitchen […]
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Cruz’s honesty appreciated
I think Ted Cruz is being unfairly criticized for what he did not say in his convention speech. If you judge what he did say, it was a very good lecture on the freedoms I believe in as a Republican. What people forget is that conservatives stand on principle and mean what they say. After […]
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Field got it right
I have always enjoyed and agreed with the sentiments in letters from Ellen Field. Her latest (July 19), “Religious intolerance,” describes exactly how I have felt for many years about the constant attacks on others by groups of the religious right. They ask others to change their lives to please and satisfy their religion, paying […]
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World is under siege
In the aftermath of numerous successful attempts in assassinating law enforcement officers, I am totally convinced that there is a serious epidemic of vengeful individuals committing unjustified terrorist attacks, many of which influenced by that cancer of evilness — ISIS. The United States has become a target of terrorists. The government has yet to come […]
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Poor management decision
The Lewiston School Committee unanimously voted to use $5,000 of taxpayer money, enabling Superintendent Bill Webster to take a three-month vacation — Oct. 24 to Jan.24, 2017 — when schools are in session. What a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money and a poor management decision. That use of money was not explained at the budget […]
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A lot has changed
Those of us who went into the military witnessed how the gluttonous government wastes tax dollars. I came from a family of 12, with an average of seven children living at one time with mom and dad. There was no such thing as unemployment compensation back then. Things we needed were made right here in […]
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About those bathroom laws
I hope the people who are in favor of the so-called bathroom laws have given some thought to how these laws will be enforced. Of course there would have to be security agents stationed at all restroom doors. Would we be required to present our birth certificates as proof that we are using the facilities […]