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Published
March 11, 2021

Maine Voices: Maine has history of withholding treatment from inmates. COVID is no exception

As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’
Published
March 10, 2021

Leonard Pitts: When facts cease to matter, consequences do, too

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on what it really means to live in an anti-reality society.
Published
March 10, 2021

Maine Voices: Essential workers have earned the hazard pay Portland voters approved

We are proud to be keeping local people fed and healthy, but we shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the pandemic.
Published
March 10, 2021

Commentary: U.S. vaccine hoarding is alienating the world

The world had hoped ‘America First’ would end when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as president. It hasn’t.
Published
March 9, 2021

Commentary: D.C. statehood is a civil rights issue

This is about enfranchising the more than 700,000 mostly Black and brown people who have waited centuries for representation in Congress.

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Published
March 9, 2021

Commentary: Virus keeps refusing to follow anyone’s partisan script

It ought to be clear, a year into the pandemic, that COVID-19 isn’t fake news and the U.S. isn’t a failed state.
Published
March 9, 2021

Commentary: An admiral and a novelist want you to imagine a nuclear war with China

‘2034: A Novel of the Next World War’ is fiction that envisions how we could blunder into conflict with Beijing.
Published
March 8, 2021

Maine Voices: I’m a longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center, and I don’t support a union

Why would we pay dues that would give us benefits we already have and make the patient a secondary consideration?
Published
March 7, 2021

Jim Fossel: Don’t use federal aid to grow Maine’s government

Republicans in Augusta should insist that COVID relief money is targeted to replace lost revenue, not to fund new programs.
Published
March 7, 2021

The Maine Millennial: Collins abandons her LGBTQ constituents

The senator has not explained her retreat on the Equality Act, a civil rights bill that has passed the House.