As the industry continues to re-create and rebrand its products to protect its bottom line, so must lawmakers work to ensure that tobacco control policies evolve at equal pace.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: Mainers should open their minds to universal voting
Universal voting dramatically and immediately increases participation; it would make our system of electoral politics more inclusive and more genuinely democratic.
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Opinion: Integrity is the most important issue on the ballot in November
For me, the most critical issue regarding who’ll be the next nominal leader of the free world is character. The person atop the ticket of one of America’s two major political parties has continued to demonstrate that he doesn’t have any.
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Commentary: Social media age limits are too little too late
Australia’s government wants to ban children up to age 16 from social media, and is spending millions of dollars to figure out how. I’m willing to wager it won’t take long for tech-savvy teens who grew up on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to figure out how to log back on. The promised regulation, currently sparse […]
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Douglas Rooks: Dejoy’s plan for U.S. Postal Service will create death spiral for mail delivery
The USPS is a great public service. We should treat it like one, writes the columnist.
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Opinion: Common sense in voting has never been more critical
The priority in elections, particularly this year, should be to support candidates and party platforms that promote the basic cornerstones of a true democracy.
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Commentary: The first lyme disease vaccine failed. It’s time to try again
Nearly half a million Americans received an unpleasant surprise this summer, according to insurance billing data: a new diagnosis of Lyme disease. Those numbers could shrink if scientists succeed in developing a vaccine for the tick-borne illness. Low consumer demand scuppered a previous vaccine in the 1990s, but the situation is very different now. Cases […]
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Opinion: Baptist, Black and voting for Harris
My vote for the vice president is not simply a matter of shared religious and racial or ethnic identity.
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Commentary: ‘Why do I have to hide, Mommy?’ My kindergartener’s first lockdown drill
I send my 6-year-old son to kindergarten wearing an AirTag. I take pictures of him every day in the school drop-off line to remember his outfit. I avoid buying light-up sneakers. I subconsciously stay away from bright colors. I’ve memorized the shape of his birthmark and every single scar on his little body. I do […]
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Commentary: National Voter Registration Day is more important than ever
Each election, millions of Americans miss out on the opportunity to cast their votes because they are not registered. Some may have moved; others may not realize they need to update their voter registration, while others missed the deadline. In polling, thousands of non-voters consistently cite registration issues as their reason for not participating in […]