Letters to the Editor

4 years ago

Landlord seeks promised funds

To the editor:
I have read that 89 percent of the federal funds for housing assistance has not been distributed, according to an August report in the New York Times.

4 years ago

Please consider being vaccinated

To the editor:
I write this letter as a plea for help. As a member of this community and physician for 21 years, I am devastated at the destruction COVID-19 has caused. I have and continue to witness firsthand the disability and death it is causing in this community that I love and call home.

4 years ago

A tragedy and a plea

To the Editor:
As a resident of 145th District, I was troubled to learn that our own elected State Rep. Chris Johansen and his wife Cindy (corresponding secretary of the Aroostook County Republicans) had both contracted COVID-19 (BDN, July 23;  Maine Public, July 24, et al).

4 years ago

What Olympics are all about

To the editor:
To be totally candid, I avoided watching this summer’s Olympics like the plague — not because I had a sudden aversion to world-class sports and seat-of-your-pants competition, but because I had no desire to see the tantrums of spoiled, entitled athletes spitting on and protesting the very country that gave them all the opportunities in the world.

4 years ago

Child-care system needs immediate support

To the editor: 
Recent news articles have provided important insight into the child care crisis Maine is facing. While the crisis has been looming for years, the pandemic has worsened it.

4 years ago

Bring common sense to the table

To the editor:
Recently there have been protests about the recent vaccination mandates for health care workers and the use of masks. I do support the premise that we should have freedom of choice.

4 years ago

Talking marijuana difficult, but necessary

To the editor:
As our local municipal governments consider opting in or opting out of allowing marijuana businesses into our communities, here are some public health concerns discovered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

4 years ago

Anger directed at wrong target

To the editor:

So Americans were sick of the angry orange man. He just had to go. It didn’t seem to matter all he had accomplished, how strong he had made America, how energy independent he’d made us, how North Korea and the Middle East had reacted positively to his policies, how the southern border was well on its way to becoming secure.

4 years ago

Collins advocates for The County

To the editor:
Here in Aroostook County, we are fortunate to have one of our very own representing us in the U.S. Senate. Nobody is a stronger advocate for our rural communities than Senator Susan Collins.