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Done waiting for patient safety

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, March 8, 2013
As an employee in downtown Portland as well as a resident, I've been exposed to a climate of escalating hostility surrounding the entrance to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England offices.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | March 07, 2013

Not buying the Moss legend

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, February 1, 2013
In the January 11 Portland Phoenix, book reviewer Charles Taylor lauds Kate Moss — the notoriously waifish model — as the "most extraordinary photographic muse of our era."

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | January 30, 2013

Birds, noise vs. wind power

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, January 4, 2013
I was very disappointed that the Phoenix chose to endorse subsidizing the wind power industry.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | December 31, 2012

Courage in journalism

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, November 30, 2012
What does it mean to be a courageous journalist?

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | November 28, 2012

An organ recipient speaks up

An article on this subject ("On Being Undead," by Jeff Inglis, October 26) needs to be done with great thought and care.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | October 31, 2012

Occupying skepticism

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, October 26, 2012
I applaud the efforts of the Occupy Movement to organize for change, and feel Lincoln Park is less interesting now that its tent city is gone.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | October 24, 2012

Get the rhetoric right

Letter to the Portland Phoenix editors, October 19, 2012
Why do some Maine politicians keep talking about businesses as "job creators?"

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | October 18, 2012

A marriage proposal + Thumbs up to Lance

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, September 21, 2012
As a member of the LGBT community for the past 45 years I can tell you that marriage equality (see "Yes On One? Duh ," by Deirdre Fulton, September 14) is not on the front burner for most of the people I know in my community.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | September 19, 2012

Trade search or junket?

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, September 14, 2012
Isn't it wonderful that the government that has cut every human-services program it can and has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to further cut MaineCare and health programs for fellow citizens has somehow now found the capital to send a group of political lackeys on a sell-Maine-business junket to China?

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | September 12, 2012

An improvement on ‘Reimagining’

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, September 7, 2012
I loved your "Reimagining Portland" ideas — except one.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | September 05, 2012

Peter Vigue: listen closely

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, August 31, 2012
In May when I asked Peter Vigue at the County Commissioner's meeting in Dover-Foxcroft about the potential for a tar sands oil pipeline in the proposed East-West Corridor (see "Tar Sands Disaster," by Deirdre Fulton, August 17) he dismissed the question.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | August 29, 2012

A proposal for Congress Square

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, July 6, 2012
It has been suggested, as an alternative to the warehouse-like "ballroom" proposed by the Eastland Hotel's new owners, that Congress Square and adjacent buildings be redesigned and redeveloped as a "centerpiece" urban plaza.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | July 03, 2012

Looking ahead

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, June 8, 2012
Lance Tapley's assessment of environmental protection efforts during the 125th Legislature (see "'Holding the Line,'" May 25) gives due credit to some like Senator Tom Saviello, but ignores integral efforts of important others.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | June 06, 2012

Does saving bureaucracy equal saving the environment?

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, June 1, 2012
Lance Tapley's article, "Lawmakers Mostly Stand Up Against Environmental Assault" (May 25) claims that Natural Resources Committee (NRC) Chair, Senator Tom Saviello, may have saved Maine's environment this session.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | May 30, 2012

Vote Best, not gender

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editor, April 27, 2012
I agree whole-heartedly with Deirdre Fulton that a paucity of women interested in holding political office is bad (see "Female Dems Could Help Take Back State House," April 20).

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | April 25, 2012

Local businesses: be more than Not Walmart

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editors, April 13, 2012
Within the last two weeks, both my girlfriend and I have been treated condescendingly by independent storeowners in Portland. The nature of our interactions has led us to question the very "Keep Portland Independent" philosophy that led us to relocate here in January.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | April 11, 2012

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