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Columns

Published
May 6, 2020

Commentary: We must save lives at risk from COVID, new nuclear arms race

Encourage our U.S. senators to sign on to an extension of the New START Treaty.
Published
May 6, 2020

Maine Voices: Let’s look at numbers, science while we open up our state

Maine's CDC director and governor have kept us safer than almost any other state, a car dealer says, and they'll reopen us to business just as safely.
Published
May 5, 2020

Maine Voices: Bold action on COVID testing is needed to get people back to work

A Nobel Prize-winning economist's proposal – test essential workers daily, test the rest of us every two weeks – sets up a framework for gathering the data we need to make a decision
Published
May 5, 2020

Commentary: Harsh rhetoric tears us apart – and can make violence seem acceptable

The often-overlooked reaction to the 1970 Kent State shootings offers chilling lessons for us today.
Published
May 5, 2020

Commentary: In COVID crisis, long-term care employees have been Maine’s everyday heroes

They're on the front lines, providing life-sustaining care, and a national study has found many are now their household's only breadwinner.

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Published
May 4, 2020

Maine Voices: COVID hits hard on the working poor

People who live paycheck to paycheck can't take the steps to protect their health that are available to their better-off neighbors.
Published
May 3, 2020

Maine Observer: A morning run with a Freeport Olympian

Joan Benoit Samuelson is in a class of her own, but she shares the road with a neighbor for at least part of her workout.
Published
May 3, 2020

The Maine Millennial: Postal Service may become a COVID casualty

We are in danger of losing an institution enshrined in our Constitution that offers a service that no private company would provide.
Published
May 3, 2020

The View From Here: Rolling the dice with COVID

Science will only give you part of the answer to the question of how much risk are you willing to accept.
Published
May 3, 2020

Maine Voices: Small nonprofits trying to map out survival strategy in summer of COVID

‘Stay home – but send us your money’ is the message being perceived by the seasonal returnees whose donations enable essential services in Maine year round.