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Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
A message of encouragement from Minnesota to Maine | Opinion
Protests and whistleblowing have had limited impact here. My advice? Keep doing all you can anyway.
Sen. Collins must know a ‘pause’ on ICE operations is not enough | Opinion
The agency’s activities must be halted altogether — and permanently.
Maine must not lose sight of Border Patrol | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
Border Patrol has jurisdiction within 100 miles of the U.S. border. Does that make you feel safer? I have to say it’s not doing anything for me.
Faced with ICE, our teachers deserve support of school administrators | Opinion
If administrators lifted restrictions and offered guidance in schools, teachers could mobilize to the best of their abilities.
Gov. Mills’ ‘affordability checks’ do not check out | Jim Fossel
Why won’t the governor explore permanent tax cuts?
Is voting working? What if we rolled the dice instead? | Opinion
Selecting our legislators or magistrates from the public at random, rather than electing them, is an idea worth exploring.
The ‘upspeak’ trend is dragging us all down | Opinion
Upspeak, a speech habit meant to sound cooperative, can register as hesitation, particularly in public settings.
Republicans must hold Trump accountable for global threats | Opinion
Until the party divorces itself from its oligarchical overlords and repudiates Donald Trump, it should be boycotted by patriotic voters of all stripes.
Please stop calling it ‘polarization’ | Opinion
Since when does following the Constitution and the rule of law amount to radical activism? The time for the political center is now.