The process to buy a gun should be more rigorous.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: Protect women athletes? Show me the money
Laws requiring equal financing and equal pay for men’s and women’s teams would benefit dozens of women athletes at USM and Bowdoin – and thousands nationwide.
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Commentary: Maine response to PFAS amounts to regulatory overreach
Regulators underestimate the cost of implementing PFAS regulations and fundamentally misunderstand the complex nature of these compounds.
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Commentary: Transition to green energy impossible without the right grid
Our grid systems are totally inadequate for the task ahead. Not that you’ll hear fossil fuel interests complaining.
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Commentary: The gun lobby’s strength is cultural, not financial
The NRA’s biggest achievement has been defining the ownership of firearms as a distinctive form of social identity.
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Siobhán Brett: Response to Trump indictment an indictment of our politics
The hush money indictment is historic. That doesn’t mean it will be significant. Or positive.
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Siobhán Brett: Response to Trump indictment an indictment of our politics
The hush money indictment is historic. That doesn’t mean it will be significant. Or positive.
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The Maine Millennial: The state of Maine needs my taxes more than I need a tax cut
If you think you’ll never need government assistance, know that life has a way of throwing curve balls at you.
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Ben Bragdon: Don’t tell me you can’t do anything about school shootings
We have the power to make school shootings, and gun violence overall, less likely.
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Jim Fossel: Maine Republicans must make life difficult for Democrats
When it comes to responding to the state budget process, many options are open to the minority party in Augusta.