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Veterans home closures are devastating

To the editor: The slated closing of our Maine Veterans Homes in Machias and Caribou is devastating not only to Washington and Aroostook County veterans but also their loved ones who depend on these facilities for critical long-term care.

Flat-earth thinking

To the editor: A letter recently published here was disappointing in form and tone. It was snide and used a stale rhetorical device to assign blame for high gas prices. The device is obvious but begs to be exposed, and silence only paves the way for bullies. So, this civil response.

Administration has it wrong

To the editor: Two days ago, I heard our esteemed commander in chief complain to reporters, "I am sick and tired of being blamed for the current price of gasoline. That's Putin's fault.”

Here’s how to fund Veterans Homes

To the editor: Do the math. Those in charge propose to close the Caribou and Machias [Maine] Veterans Homes, in part due to a combined annual shortfall of $2 million. The next year’s forecast is a combined $3 million shortfall.

No vilification intended

To the editor: A comment about Al Craft’s letter to the times, “Misplaced Fictional Concreteness.”

Truth in whole and on topic

To the editor: Recent letters appearing here remind me that truth can be quicksilver -- attractive but elusive. Completeness and relevance give truth the ballast it needs to stand upright, to mean something.

Bad business, not racism

To the editor: Some comments on Al Craft’s letter to the Times. In his letter he states his supermajority state legislature is the product of what his supreme court called racially biased gerrymandering. I believe he was referring to the redistricting proposal suggested by the Republicans and challenged by the Democrats.

Flavored tobacco needs to go

To the editor: Although the FDA has denied marketing applications for over 1 million flavored e-cigarette products, they have yet to stop all flavored tobacco sales and there are still more than 15,000 flavors on the market to choose from.

Let’s stick to facts

To the editor: In perusing the most recent and earlier dated issues of [the Times], what has become quite clear to this writer is that the so common "mud-slinging" from our brothers and sisters on the left is almost 100 percent without merit and is forwarded simply as a desperate, and later embarrassing, shot at a conservative subscriber in a losing discussion.

Misplaced fictional concreteness

To the editor: A Jan. 26 letter vilified President Biden’s efforts to shield voting rights from quasi-legal constraints now raging across too many states. Yellow card, please.

Troubled democracy

To the editor: Our country is in trouble. Democracy in America is being threatened by a political party, led by an incompetent president more interested in a dictatorship than in government for all. The Democratic Party today is little more than a sham and Biden’s promise to be a uniter is all but forgotten.

In support of WHOU decision

To the editor: Wow, someone did the right thing. We hear continuously about priests, coaches, doctors and others in authority sexually abusing boys and girls, sometimes for decades, who are allowed to continue do so because the people in charge and are responsible for stopping this deplorable behavior turn a blind eye.

Position is clear

To the editor: Regarding Walter Crean’s latest letter on racism in America: Now we all know where you stand, Walter … except for the racists.

Thoughts on cultural inequality

To the editor: With an open mind, I read the thoughtful Jan. 5 letter about cultural versus systemic inequality. I hope these thoughts in reply might be read with an equally open mind.

It might be time to take a look at inequality as cultural and not systemic

To the editor: Today we are facing what appears to be mostly a black racial uprising in America. The popular opinion seems to be that racial disparities exist and are caused by systemic racism. Systemic racism is defined as: The pattern of social and political systems discriminating against a group of people based on race.

Repercussions

To the editor: My other half called me an idiot today. I jokingly told her she wouldn’t call me that if I had finished high school. She said she also wouldn’t call me that if I wasn’t an idiot. I didn’t take offense, almost everyone is entitled to their opinion, accent on the almost.

Keeping the language alive

To the editor: I enjoyed reading the most recent Mon 5 Cents in the SJVT. It's true what my friend Don Levesque said about how time goes by faster as you age.

Why I mask

To the editor: I’m a former resident of Fort Kent and a UMFK graduate. In light of the controversy in Fort Kent about mask wearing in the elementary school, I thought it might be helpful to share four reasons I mask up.

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