Many workers are forced to drop out of the workforce entirely to take care of their children and parents. If we want to be pro-family and pro-workforce, we need this kind of program.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Douglas Rooks: Ukraine a defining issue for 2024
Biden must show positive results over the next 12 months from NATO’s vast investment in Ukraine’s charismatic young leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or his reelection will be in jeopardy.
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Commentary: Maine gains from congressional delegation’s global outlook
U.S. leadership and investment overseas reaps myriad dividends – a fact our elected representatives in D.C. have a firm grasp of.
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Commentary: Maine’s trails and great outdoors richly deserve our investment
Skowhegan is not alone in seeing the magnificent value of trails. But we need state and federal support to realize our potential as a place with accessible and connected trails that offer year-round experiences.
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Commentary: Staffing hospitals at skeletal levels forces nurses to scramble
Nurses from Portland to Presque Isle have told me they are unable to either save patients’ lives or ensure they go home without any preventable complications. L.D. 1639 could change that.
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Commentary: Why do we assume that it’s safe to use our phones while we drive?
There’s growing recognition that the use of handheld phones while driving is profoundly dangerous. The data suggest that using your phone ‘responsibly’ isn’t great either.
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Jim Fossel: Has the Republican presidential field learned any lessons?
Time will tell whether or not the party is doomed to repeat the mistakes of 2016.
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The Maine Millennial: The road to a new relationship is full of rocks
More and more these days, I feel like I’m onstage in a play where everyone else got a script and I didn’t.
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Maine Compass: The rebirth of the Kennebec
You can’t see any fish, flying as we were 900 feet above the river. But we knew they were there, moving upstream to spawn. Flying over the Kennebec River was a fascinating experience and I was grateful for the opportunity to look at the watershed from above, to see and think about the efforts that […]
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Commentary: Honor, loss and perspective from a Mainer on Memorial Day
Honor. Here in Maine — especially where veterans are buried — honor means something. I recently walked Maple Cemetery in Winthrop, Mount Pleasant in Wayne, Fish in Leeds, and stopped to think about those who fell young. Memorial Day is coming, time to pause. Honor is what comes to mind too, washes over you in […]