What is the word for a fish which begins its life as an egg in a small mountain stream, hatches and swims downstream countless miles, transforms itself to survive in salt water, and journeys out through the Gulf of Maine, above Newfoundland, to Greenland, and then swims all the way back? Awe-inspiring? Miraculous? Thousands upon […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s construction industry is ready to build our clean energy future
But if we continue to block large-scale, multi-year infrastructure projects like the New England Clean Energy Connect, our economy will not grow.
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Ramesh Ponnuru: Supreme Court needn’t fear political backlash on abortion
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The View From Here: Living on a two-way street
Thank you and farewell to the readers with opinions about our opinions, who always let us know what they think.
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The Maine Millennial: Men get to enjoy sex without consequence. Why can’t women do the same?
The only way to really reduce abortions is birth control and sexual education.
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Maine Voices: Court erases last vestige of anti-Catholic law
The bigoted, anti-immigrant policies of Maine’s James G. Blaine was behind Maine’s ban on public funding for religious schools.
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Insight: The dangerous pull of conspiracy theories
In a world plagued with doubt, it’s a relief to feel that you know what’s really going on.
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Maine Voices: Supreme Court decision based on sadly outdated ideology
The shock of the Dobbs decision should mobilize people to fight for the whole range of human rights now under threat.
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Maine Voices: Court puts abortion in the political arena, where it belongs
In a democracy, elected officials, not judges, should pass laws that resolve complex moral, spiritual and cultural disputes.