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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: Want to modernize Maine’s vehicle inspection program? Eliminate it.
Mainers know the system is imperfect, subject to human error and the wrong incentives. Digitization won’t help.
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Jim Fossel: Chinese threat has to be countered
Past efforts at partnership and cooperation are now hard to fathom.
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From the publisher: New year. More work to be done
Dear reader, I hope you had a peaceful and relaxing holiday. At the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal, we enjoyed a little downtime after another remarkable year of news coverage. We are committed to reporting on the stories important to our communities. The new year always brings “top ten” lists of everything so it’s no […]
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Commentary: Bookstores are a refuge for freedom of speech while censors on both sides wage battle
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Hilary Koch: How to keep going after ‘Quitter’s Day’
New Year’s resolutions rarely work. But setting goals doesn’t have to end in failure.
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Commentary: 2023 brings new opportunities to invest in Maine’s climate resilience
By focusing on vulnerable communities, local government and small business, the Legislature can ensure our state makes the clean energy transition equitable.
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Douglas Rooks: A prescription for the new year
Let’s make 2023 the year of fewer numbers, and more poetry.
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Commentary: Electoral Count Reform Act takes a 19th-century law into the 21st century
It took the violent breach of the Capitol to shine a spotlight on the pressing need for reform.
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Commentary: U.S. defense budget keeps growing for the wrong reasons
Eye-watering defense spending is predicated on a belief that the global balance of power is moving to America’s disadvantage. Is it though?