Maine’s senior senator has been a consistent in her efforts to bridge divides, choosing inclusion over division.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine must mend one crack in semi-open primaries | Opinion
On June 9, many members of third parties found themselves excluded when trying to cast a ballot. Fortunately, there’s a simple legislative solution.
Platner should not have to pass purity tests | Opinion
Insisting that Graham Platner pass every ideological purity test is a surefire way to guarantee the return of a Republican-controlled Senate.
AI is changing work. Maine must be free to respond. | Opinion
Current proposals in Congress would strip states across the country of the right to respond to the real-world impacts of AI in their own communities.
Portland’s new charter school threatens public school project | Opinion
When families choose to pull their children from public schools, the remaining students take the biggest hit.
Bobby Charles is not the governor Maine needs | Opinion
The Republican nominee for governor would move our state in the wrong direction at exactly the wrong time.
New Maine MILL is something every Mainer must see | Steve Collins
The remarkable new museum in Lewiston taps history and art to compelling effect.
Ranked-choice voting in Maine has been a roaring success | Opinion
Ranked-choice voting, semi-open primaries and ongoing absentee voting lift turnout and strengthen voters’ power.
What Maine’s primaries tell us about the general | Douglas Rooks
Ranked-choice voting shook up the ballot. What matters now is what the victors do with those victories.
A federal proposal puts Maine’s scientific research in peril | Opinion
Political appointees simply cannot effectively oversee day-to-day research decisions.