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Columns

Published
June 21, 2018

Maine Voices: Maine delegation should help Congress reassert power to declare war

First, modern war must be more clearly defined. Second, partisan politics must be abandoned.
Published
June 20, 2018

Leonard Pitts: Making humans less than real makes falling for the lie easier

The separated immigrant children are putting human faces on what are, in fact, human beings.
Published
June 20, 2018

Maine Voices: PortFringe Festival carves out space for artists to take creative risks

Considered as a form of resistance, the event strives to keep the artist experience front and center.
Published
June 20, 2018

Maine Senate candidate: Gridlock thwarts another citizens’ initiative

With everything voters are facing, the Clean Elections Act is in the mix, and there are reasons to care.
Published
June 19, 2018

Kathleen Parker: Ripping apart immigrant families at the border? I don’t recognize this country anymore

The only way to rationalize these events is to view immigrants as less than human. .

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Published
June 19, 2018

Hospitality industry leader: Don’t tie tourism’s success to Maine’s economic woes

We need to create a strong economic environment to accompany our scenic beauty if we are to attract new residents and investment.
Published
June 19, 2018

Commentary: Satellites map our dismal water future

The map points to the pressing need for national-level water policy discussions in the United States.
Published
June 18, 2018

Maine Voices: Hungry Mainers need bipartisan Senate farm bill that supports SNAP

Meanwhile, the Republican House version would take food assistance from 2 million Americans.
Published
June 17, 2018

Maine Observer: Dad’s typing: Reverberant Royal percussion

To my children, writing is like television. But in my mind, real writing sounds like the engine of my father's words.
Published
June 17, 2018

Maine Voices: Today is Father’s Day, but I haven’t moved on since Feb. 15, 1960

Suicide is in the news, and that was the day that my father took his own life when I was 12 years old.