In 25 years since the planting and dedication of the Gingko trees at the Augusta Civic Center, the numbers of Asians has increased in this community and across the state.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Compass: CMP corridor remains important part of climate strategy
The campaign to defeat the corridor played on the emotions of Mainers and nativist past to make its final point. It’s time for useless rhetoric such as this to be put to bed.
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Maine Voices: Leaked ruling overturning Roe flouts legal system’s standards
Justice Samuel Alito has failed to demonstrate any reason why the court should not be bound by its earlier decision.
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Maine Compass: Our rivers should be alive and productive. Brookfield is not helping
For more than 50 years I have been a resident of Benton, Maine. I am a Republican, and a retired selectman and town treasurer. I am concerned for the health of all Maine waters and, especially, the Kennebec River. As Benton’s Alewife Warden I observe effective fish passage benefitting people and wildlife in the Sebasticook […]
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Douglas Rooks: Stockholm Syndrome is the Democrats’ problem, not ours
The party spends too much wallowing. It’s time to fight.
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Maine Voices: We need a DHHS that is open to legislators, Maine’s people
Legitimate legislative scrutiny sparked by the state watchdog’s report on the Office of Child and Family Services has resulted in a circling of the wagons.
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Maine Voices: We are oppressing one another in this country, and it needs to stop
If a lack of unity, tolerance and love persists in the United States, then we are no longer united; therefore, the basis for our country no longer exists.
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Commentary: Seizing Maine’s utilities won’t get us closer to clean-energy future
Our enemies are rising prices and rising global temperatures – not CMP and Versant.
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Maine Voices: Foster care system is only as good as those who choose to be part of it
National Foster Care Month is the time to learn about the many dedicated Maine foster parents like Laurie and Chris Tomascik, who have helped kids succeed in school and life.
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The Maine Millennial: U.S. health care coverage is a battle of the robots
Trying to get an insurer to pay for something requires the stamina to outlast the ranks of automated voices and customer service agents.