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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Bill Nemitz: The yellow flag law isn’t working. Maine’s leaders should be seeing red.
We owe it to the 18 people killed in the Lewiston shootings to strengthen our gun control laws.
Jim Fossel: Our systems failed Lewiston victims
Government oversight isn’t flashy but it is essential. And it must be the number one concern for the state Legislature now.
Maine Compass: Five lessons from Maine’s day from hell
Living in Maine, not far from where the recent mass shooting occurred, five lessons emerge. First, bad things happen in good places. Having grown up in Maine, near Lewiston, the shock for everyone in this community — in this state — was enormous, unfathomable. In Maine, as most know, we grow up trusting, and help anyone […]
Commentary: Maine’s state gun policies are flawed – by design
Lawmakers in Augusta have had opportunity after opportunity to enact effective gun safety laws. None have been taken.
Maine Compass: Vote yes on Question 3 to reject the disinformation from foreign for-profit utilities
Maine was served by home-grown electric utilities for over a century. Today, CMP and Versant are for-profit foreign corporations that sent $187 million in profits out of country last year. They have fossil fuel interests in Spain, Canada, Norway, and the Middle East and are so afraid of losing these profits that they are spending […]
Commentary: State ownership of Maine’s grid system is unwise
There is no reason to believe that putting Mainers in charge of our electricity grid would produce better results.
Douglas Rooks: A tipping point in the fight against gun violence
The ripples of last week’s “mass shooting” — an inadequate term, but all we have — continue to spread, but gradually the shock waves are receding from the days immediately following the horrific events in Lewiston. For a time everyone locked their doors, while the search for the man who took 18 lives, not including […]
Commentary: Gun ownership and gun safety laws can and do coexist
The policy change most of us desperately want will only come if we demand it.
Commentary: The ocean of yesterday is not the ocean of tomorrow
The massive algae bloom in the Gulf of Maine this past summer serves as a stark reminder of the need for new and better data.