If we want to understand how COVID has influenced our world, we should study the impact of early disease outbreaks in classical Greece.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Tom Waddell: Subsidizing religion costs US taxpayers
We spend about $90 billion a year now, with an annual increase of $2 billion.
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Maine Compass: Enough of ‘pickerel vs. payroll’ on Kennebec
We should work toward win-win solutions that restore sea-run fish to the Kennebec, maintain critical infrastructure, and improve the Kennebec River as a resource for our towns and communities.
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Maine Voices: What Americans have in common is our differences
We need to reject religious or civil absolutism that claims there is only one kind of American.
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Maine Voices: Portland-Lewiston rail would be an environmental and economic game changer
The Maine Department of Transportation has had a good plan for doing so since 2011, but has always put road projects first.
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Commentary: ‘Best Places to Live’ may not be the best places to live
The lack of middle class affordability in ‘winner cities’ is driving economic growth elsewhere.
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Commentary: On the front lines, here’s what the 7 stages of severe COVID-19 look like
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Maine Voices: Protecting children from abuse is everybody’s job
In almost every horrific case, outsiders saw something but they may not have recognized it as abuse and never reported it.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Paul LePage’s alternative COVID facts
It doesn’t take much imagination to see what the pandemic would have been like with a different governor.
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Bill Nemitz: Welcome aboard, kindergartners. Time to buckle up.
Nothing speaks to our collective future more than that first day of school.