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Published
March 10, 2021

Our View: ‘Long-haulers’ a distressing sign of COVID’s future

COVID-19 is causing scary long-term symptoms, even in people with initially mild cases.
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.
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.

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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 9, 2021

Our View: Biden’s Rescue Plan sends aid where it’s needed

Millions of families, in Maine and across the country, can’t wait for a slow economic recovery to reach them.
Published
March 8, 2021

Our View: A strong Maine farming industry starts with healthy soil

Maine should follow 11 other states and establish a program to help farmers improve their yields and fight climate change.
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

Our View: Maine has been tested in year of COVID

Twelve months since the state’s first case, we are among the safest in the country – with much work left to do.