Politics is service and should support and provide for the needs of our community, the state representative writes.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Another View: UMA class of 2020 will be on the front lines
With us on the front lines, I know that we will recover — as a state, a nation and a world, a class member writes.
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Maine Voices: Small businesses can’t wait any longer – we must fully reopen now
Rescind the 14-day self-quarantine and promote Maine as The Safest Place to Vacation this year.
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Tom Waddell: Actions by Trump, and now his supporters, are putting us in danger
The president was slow to respond to the coronavirus, and now many of his followers are choosing to ignore CDC recommendations on safety.
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Douglas Rooks: Centralized authority has its limits
Pitting public health against “economic sustainability” doesn’t answer the important questions before us.
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Commentary: We must save lives at risk from COVID, new nuclear arms race
Encourage our U.S. senators to sign on to an extension of the New START Treaty.
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Maine Voices: Let’s look at numbers, science while we open up our state
Maine’s CDC director and governor have kept us safer than almost any other state, a car dealer says, and they’ll reopen us to business just as safely.
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George Smith: Books to quarantine by
It’s a good time to pull your favorite books from the shelves.
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Maine Voices: Bold action on COVID testing is needed to get people back to work
A Nobel Prize-winning economist’s proposal – test essential workers daily, test the rest of us every two weeks – sets up a framework for gathering the data we need to make a decision
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The Maine Millennial: Postal Service may become a COVID casualty
We are in danger of losing an institution enshrined in our Constitution that offers a service that no private company would provide.