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Columns

Published
July 14, 2021

Maine Voices: Federal relief funds should target Mainers hit hardest by the pandemic

Our health and economic well-being are bound together, and we can all become weaker when some people are left behind.
Published
July 13, 2021

Commentary: For heaven’s sake, get the COVID-19 vaccination

Conservative inoculation opponents frame the issue as a matter of rights when in fact it’s a matter of everyday morality.
Published
July 13, 2021

Maine Voices: Water control as political tool is playing out across the world

The struggles of Palestinians and the people of Maine for water rights and environmental justice are linked.
Published
July 12, 2021

Maine Voices: Dam removal would hurt Maine economy

State policy has been shifted to support the rights of fish over humans, a state senator writes.
Published
July 11, 2021

The View From Here: Avoiding the nostalgia trap

Seeing old friends can be a good reminder that the future has promise and the past was not always so great.

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Published
July 11, 2021

Bill Nemitz: God help ‘Johnny Pockets,’ wherever he may be

As the U.S. military pulls out of Afghanistan, what awaits those who risked their lives to help us?
Published
July 11, 2021

Maine Observer: Lessons from ‘The Plague’

In a time when conspiracy theories do battle with science, Camus' work is eerily relevant.
Published
July 11, 2021

Jim Fossel: Bipartisan Maine budget deal won’t help LePage

Republicans in the Legislature showed that they could work with Democratic lawmakers and the Mills administration to govern through compromise.
Published
July 11, 2021

Insight: The tale of Bar Harbor’s ‘Treasure Ship’

At the outbreak of the First World War, a German ship carrying silver and gold bullion tried to find safe harbor in Maine. The arrival kicked off a legal battle for the history books.
Published
July 11, 2021

The Maine Millennial: Historical reckoning begins at home

We can’t change what happened in the past, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it, my own family history shows.