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Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
We’re still seeking a vaccine against ignorance
Most Americans younger than 50, including doctors, have never seen measles.
Traditional beliefs and distrust of authority fueling disease outbreak
If It Happened There: Description of an American event using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries.
Those of us older than 50 feared polio, childhood diseases more than vaccines
Vaccines have been one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, saving many lives and much misery.
Millennials will discover there isn’t an app to solve the world’s toughest problems
Those born roughly between 1985 and 2000 see technology as the solution to just about everything.
Under review: The media’s frenzied handling of ‘Deflategate’
It’s time to throw the penalty flag on holding headline trials without the benefit of solid evidence.
We all should be able to support broad strokes of LePage’s tax reform
Details of plan are controversial, particularly the part about cutting revenue sharing.
What we don’t know can hurt us
The federal government, under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has sought to suppress facts about secret programs and punish those who attempt to make them public.
Maine’s energy future lies with our resources: wood, wind, water, sun
In spite of the popularity of renewable energy sources, substantial subsidies still being given fossil fuel suppliers.
Anti-vaccination column puts lives at risk
Those fighting leukemia, other diseases have compromised immune systems that leave them vulnerable to measles.