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opinion

Published
June 30, 2021

Commentary: Big Tech crackdown could have unintended victims

U.S. efforts to rein in Facebook and Twitter are a gift to authoritarian governments around the world.
Published
June 30, 2021

Maine Voices: Maine’s senators must lead on gun-violence prevention

The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
Published
June 30, 2021

Our View: Bipartisan budget invests in Maine’s future

Lawmakers on Wednesday should give the $8.5 billion two-year spending plan the votes it needs to pass into law immediately.
Published
June 29, 2021

Commentary: Fund public transit, not more roads

We should stop subsidizing sprawl and spend those savings on our resource-starved mass transit systems.
Published
June 29, 2021

Our View: Close youth detention center Long Creek the right way

Gov. Mills was right to veto a bill that adds unnecessary risk to the plan to close Maine’s only youth prison.

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Published
June 29, 2021

Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.

More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
Published
June 28, 2021

Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform

Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
Published
June 27, 2021

Maine Observer: Seeing Maine through other eyes

The people who visit every year remind us what a special place our state really is.
Published
June 27, 2021

Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it

If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
Published
June 27, 2021

Jim Fossel: Senators, not Senate rules, make laws

Liberals complain about the filibuster, but repealing it would likely have little impact on the development of policy.