The national focus is on two moderate Democrats, leaving Republican Collins and independent King out of the conversation.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
After two wars and incalculable sacrifice, the Maine National Guard pivots to a peacetime mission
The COVID-19 pandemic is a good example of the guard’s shift from hostilities overseas to helping here at home.
Maine Voices: Land trusts are part of the fight against climate change
Undeveloped land is ‘natural infrastructure’ that prevents flooding and other impacts of increasingly common severe weather events.
Maine Voices: Corridor campaign showed what’s missing in U.S. energy planning – dialogue
Without communication between all the affected parties, you can’t develop the public trust needed to succeed.
Douglas Rooks: Listening our way out of the electoral morass
It starts by talking with those of different persuasions, and listening; too often we’re doing the opposite.
Maine Voices: The two-party system builds division and dysfunction
We won’t be able to address our core problems with a system that concentrates wealth and power.
Bill Nemitz: Maine voters to CMP, Avangrid and Iberdrola: Can you hear us now?
Question 1’s overwhelming victory on Tuesday was, in the end, inevitable.
Maine Voices: Why I care about the Fed (and why you should too)
Federal Reserve policy controls who benefits from economic growth, and who gets poorer when times are bad.