Letters to the Editor

9 years ago

Standing up to overreach

To the editor:

On November 29 the Maine Woods Coalition held its annual meeting in Bangor. The business portion of the meeting included the election of steering committee members, as well as the slate of officers for the upcoming year.

9 years ago

Time to act on health care options

To the editor:
As an outreach and enrollment specialist for the Health Insurance Marketplace, I’ve seen firsthand what the Affordable Care Act means for Aroostook County’s uninsured. Every day, I hear from those who now have peace of mind because they know they can afford to get the care they need.

9 years ago

A caring community

To the editor:
My friend and I were in a bad car accident on this past October on U.S. Route 1 near the Budget Motel.

9 years ago

Trump’s conflicts of interest

To the Editor:
Isn’t anyone worried that Donald Trump’s children, if given security clearance, would be privy to information they might use in making decisions about his business interests, information other businesses would not have?

9 years ago

Bring back the old format

To the editor:

     I am enclosing a format as to what I think a Caribou Winter Carnival can be. I would like to have you print this format in your paper so that everyone can see what a Winter Carnival can do for Caribou. We don’t have many activities in the winter months and having a Winter Carnival would certainly be one of them and often spoken of.

9 years ago

Time to act now on health care options

To the editor:

     As an outreach and enrollment specialist for the Health Insurance Marketplace, I’ve seen firsthand what the Affordable Care Act means for Aroostook County’s uninsured. Every day, I hear from those who now have peace of mind because they know they can afford to get the care they need.

9 years ago

Public university makes extreme statement

To the editor:

As a Maine taxpayer, avid sports fan, and alumni of the university system I was extremely insulted that our men’s basketball team would feel the need to make an extremely radical political statement at the away game at Duke University last week.

Unless I missed it, UMaine’s teams still represent the people of Maine who pay a good portion of the salaries of the athletic staff and coaches.

As you know, the citizens of North Carolina, through their representatives, recently decided to protect the privacy of their citizens, especially their youngest citizens, by pushing back against the radical LGBT agenda which had threatened to expose young children to adults of the opposite sex in the public bathrooms of the Tar Heel State.

9 years ago

Time to act now on health care options

To the editor:

As an outreach and enrollment specialist for the Health Insurance Marketplace, I’ve seen firsthand what the Affordable Care Act means for Aroostook County’s uninsured. Every day, I hear from those who now have peace of mind because they know they can afford to get the care they need.

The plans truly are affordable for millions of uninsured Americans. Nationwide, 85 percent of Marketplace enrollees qualified for financial assistance to lower their premiums. Most Americans are enrolled in plans for $75 or less, and are seeing their out-of-pocket costs drop, and you may as well. Additionally, the plans cover the care you need, from doctor and hospital visits to prescriptions and free preventive care.

9 years ago

Help us honor Zach’s memory

To the editor:
This year, for the Christmas Light Parade in Presque Isle on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016 at 6 p.m. we will be doing a different sort of float.

9 years ago

Veterans aren’t criminals

To the editor:
When did it become OK to treat our veterans like common criminals? Between the quarterly scheduled meetings with a nurse, counting of pills and random urinalysis, I am beginning to wonder if the 13 years of honorable service means anything at all to the Department of Veterans Affairs.