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Columns

Published
July 11, 2021

Maine Voices: Don’t let pandemic year drag our high schoolers down

A new C* grade for full-year online or hybrid classes would allow Maine students who struggled during 2020-2021 to graduate on time.
Published
July 10, 2021

Maine Voice: Collins, King should vote to repeal outdated 2002 Iraq war authorization

Maine’s senators have come out in favor of the legislative branch reasserting its authority to declare war. Supporting S.J. Res. 10 is one way to do that.
Published
July 10, 2021

Commentary: Voting rights legislation should have passed, but not for reasons you think

The proposal would have outlawed House gerrymandering and ended dark money – provisions worth pursuing in any compromise versions.
Published
July 9, 2021

Commentary: To prevent crisis, infrastructure bill must include America’s care economy

Unlike the fundamental framework of roads and bridges, Sen. Susan Collins says, home-based care is ‘not infrastructure.’ The evidence suggests otherwise.
Published
July 9, 2021

Commentary: Maine needs to better prepare for changing climate – and we can’t do it alone

Our congressional delegation should press for approval of federal funding that will protect Mainers who live and make their livelihood by the rising seas.

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Published
July 8, 2021

Bill Nemitz: A philanthropy bets the farm on kids from rural Maine

The deep-pocketed Lerner Foundation is spending all it has on its Aspirations Incubator.
Published
July 8, 2021

Maine Voices: Landmark new Maine law more fairly allocates products’ real costs

Gov. Mills should sign L.D. 1541, so towns and cities won’t have to keep picking up the tab for product disposal and recycling.
Published
July 7, 2021

Leonard Pitts: The suddenness appalled – now condo collapse is a slow-motion tragedy

The abrupt loss of so many lives and homes in Florida steals peace of mind, the illusion of things in order, events under control.
Published
July 7, 2021

Commentary: The rickety politics of the federal infrastructure bill

If the bipartisan deal fails, it won’t be because the Senate is dysfunctional. It will be because the Democratic Party is.
Published
July 7, 2021

Maine Voices: Proliferation of rules, increase in costs pushing many out of South Portland

Our city used to be a working-class place with a ‘live and let live’ attitude. Not anymore, a longtime resident says.