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PublishedMay 5, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could.
Resort-style swimming pools are just one of the public amenities that white people have done without rather than share them with Black people.
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PublishedMay 1, 2021
Commentary: Honor Olympia Snowe’s legacy by naming Portland Custom House after her
This would be a fitting recognition that reminds generations of Mainers to come about the vital work she undertook to help Maine.
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PublishedApril 11, 2021
Maine Voices: I’ve spent my working life fighting other people’s racism. Now I must confront mine.
An educator and former prosecutor is now doing the necessary work of challenging his own false stereotypes about Black people.
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PublishedApril 11, 2021
A moving tale of a World War II ship that saw plenty of action
In 'Unsinkable,' James Sullivan traces the the 'indomitable' USS Plunkett and the men who sailed it.
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PublishedApril 8, 2021
Insight: Anti-Asian violence is nothing new in Maine
Since arriving in America, people of Asian descent have been a target of discrimination, harassment and violence, even here in Maine.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Insight: U.S. Senate filibuster is a rare bird
Most state legislatures don’t give veto power over all lawmaking to a minority, and neither do most of the world’s democracies.
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PublishedMarch 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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PublishedMarch 4, 2021
Maine Voices: Officials’ references to ‘Democrat Party’ undermine civil political discourse
If you keep calling someone by the wrong name, then you’re making a conscious choice to be disrespectful.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
Commentary: We need a second season of ‘Mrs. America’
Anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly’s career was no less important after her efforts derailed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
Our View: Democracy’s survival depends on knowledge of civics
A new report offers a roadmap for making history and government more central in American education.
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