What Portland is forced to spend for emergency shelter would be enough to develop hundreds of affordable apartments.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Jim Fossel: To boost comeback hopes, Maine Republicans must campaign as party of solutions
School choice is an example of an idea with broad appeal to voters that’s gained prominence during the pandemic.
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The Maine Millennial: Some were saved from the Holocaust with vaccines
Among the medicines that anti-vaxxers compare to Nazi war crimes were those developed by prisoners and enemies of the Third Reich.
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Ramesh Ponnuru: Every Supreme Court nominee deserves firm opposition
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Maine Voices: Why not a sales-tax holiday for Maine?
The projected $800 million budget surplus has positioned Maine well to provide some relief to our more cash-strapped friends and neighbors.
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Commentary: Whoopi Goldberg got it all wrong on the Holocaust. But if she can learn, we all can
Suspended for her misinformed comments, ‘The View’ co-host gives us all one model for how to go about changing our perceptions.
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Maine Voices: Pandemic calls for us to rethink impossible expectations of teachers
Can we continue to ask them to wear so many hats, for pay that will not allow them to pursue education as a long-term career, with minimal support?
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Another View: There’s a lot to love about Maine winters
It is 6:15 a.m. The thermometer outside my kitchen window registers -7 degrees. I feel concern wondering whether my car would start. A quiet reassurance tells me, “It always does.” I am taking my friend to the airport this morning for his annual visit south. The phone rings; it is my friend. “Are you ready? […]
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Maine Compass: Republicans are trying to strike down democracy
President Biden should use his State of the Union address to speak directly to Americans about the dangerous GOP effort to take power.
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Maine Voices: Legislature should ban solitary confinement in Maine’s jails, prisons
L.D. 696 will put an end to a practice that has no rehabilitative purpose and that harms people who are incarcerated.