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Grateful for VFW’s help

To the editor: The income tax season has just ended, which makes it a good time for us at AARP TaxAide in Caribou to extend a sincere thank you to the members and leadership of VFW post 9389.

Get home before dark

To the editor: This folk tale is for our 21st-century kids in the St.

Let’s be honest

To the editor: As an independent, I ask all of you, my fellow Maine residents, to review with me and comment on the following.

Working to preserve Veterans Homes

To the editor: I’ve talked about my father from time to time. He served during World War II, along with my uncles, and survived the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle of World War II.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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