The senator seems willing to risk Maine voting rights in exchange for the support of conservative PACs in an election year.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
A trio of predictions for Earth Day 2026 | Opinion
Unfortunately, none of them are optimistic. Fortunately, we have the power to vote out politicians who lack the courage to face climate change.
Progress for Maine children is underway. Now let’s build on it. | Opinion
Access to child care and housing are among the areas that we’re starting to succeed in. The results should encourage us all.
It’s time to talk about how Maine families pay for college | Opinion
Too many students are without the right tools or information. Many of them are being supported by adults who last navigated this process decades ago, when everything was different.
Maine public schools should stop blaming parents, start rebuilding trust | Opinion
Whichever path administrators choose will shape the future of education in the state.
Don’t be fooled by Republican trickery in Maine Senate races | Steve Collins
In four state Senate contests, GOP-aligned candidates switched their party registration to unaffiliated, allowing them to appear on the ballot as independents.
America’s health care crisis continues to add insult to injury | Opinion
We need to demand that our leaders in Augusta and Washington commit, beyond just expression of “concerns,” to voting to improve, not dismantle, our health care system.
Maine’s high electric rates are due to legislative failure, not corporate greed | Opinion
Our situation is 100% self-induced.
Support ‘blue-collar research’ on Maine’s experimental forests | Opinion
It took about 60 years to measure 1 million trees. Let’s support those foresters who want to get to work on measuring another million.
If education, business and labor come together, Maine can take advantage of AI | Opinion
Maine has faced large-scale worker dislocations before. In the absence of effective federal regulation, we must invest and collaborate as we face the biggest yet.