With new variants spreading even as vaccination rates are rising, keep wearing masks, socially distancing and limiting non-essential travel.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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RSU 9 school board member: State budget provides certainty in stressful times
RSU 9 and other local governments will be able to do their jobs better because the Legislature passed its budget early, Wayne Kinney writes.
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Sen. Hickman: Mainers must have the right to vote in all taxpayer-funded elections
L.D. 231 would let unenrolled voters cast one ballot in the primary of their choice without having to enroll in a political party.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Helping harassed Asian Americans doesn’t require confrontation
The 5 D’s of Upstander Intervention – Delegate, Distract, Delay, Document and Direct – can be practiced before you need them.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Faulty arguments pressed against Belfast land-based salmon farm
An activist group is misrepresenting a project that has been approved by regulators.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Maine, Op-Eds, Opinion
Speak up, Maine men: Domestic violence is nothing to keep silent about
Hundreds turned out Friday in York to mourn yet another abuse victim. Most, by far, were women.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: Local communities must be on the frontlines of climate fight
Business as usual won’t cut it anymore, writes a Waterville resident, as the city prepares to consider a resolution on climate change.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Antiquated car testing standards boost risk of injury, death for women
After a freak accident turned freak injury, research leads a college student to conclude that we won’t have safer vehicles until we have better crash test dummies.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Sen. Scott Cyrway: Mills administration clears way for removal of dams
Regardless of what the administration says, a key step necessary to remove dams along the Kennebec is now done, writes the senator from Albion.
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Commentary: Online registration would strengthen Mainers’ ability to vote
Passing L.D. 1126 will enable more people to participate in our democracy, making our representation stronger.