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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
The View From Here: Rolling the dice with COVID
Science will only give you part of the answer to the question of how much risk are you willing to accept.
Maine Voices: Small nonprofits trying to map out survival strategy in summer of COVID
‘Stay home – but send us your money’ is the message being perceived by the seasonal returnees whose donations enable essential services in Maine year round.
Jim Fossel: Bipartisan commission should review COVID response
Oversight and accountability should be applied to the handling of this crisis, on the federal level and here in Maine.
Community Compass: Please stand beside the Kennebec Valley YMCA
The organization, which imparts great lessons on its members and the community, needs your help, the president of its board of directors writes.
Bruce Poliquin: It’s time to start carefully reopening Maine
Get all hands on deck to process unemployment claims, open all of our state parks and let rural areas get back to normal life.
Commentary: To keep the air clear after COVID-19, take steps for clean transportation
It’s important to make sure that the post-pandemic ‘new normal’ includes clearer skies and healthier lives.
Bill Nemitz: Cutting through the thicket between want and need
As Maine partially reopens its economy today, each of us still must decide when, and how, to re-engage.
Central Maine Power: Claims on consumer-owned utilities don’t hold up
Because Central Maine Power invests in the equipment needed for infrastructure maintenance and system improvement, we can flexibly meet residential, commercial and local municipal power needs, company officials say.
Maine Voices: For the divorced, co-parenting in a pandemic is problematic
Legal practitioners offer some perspective on how to abide by Maine’s stay-at-home order.