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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Healthy Lakes, Healthy Communities: We all have a seat at the ‘kitchen table’
Everybody has what it takes to contribute to our communities.
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Commentary: It’s far cheaper to help migrants before they leave home
Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous Guna people. The island is sinking beneath rising waters as the planet warms. So Panama has built an inland housing development for the entire population. They’ll move into their […]
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Opinion: We must embrace humility, be willing to be wrong
Too much certainty and our stances become rigid and brittle. Too much doubt and they waver with every breeze.
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Opinion: A maxed-out criminal legal system is failing Mainers
Maine’s courts are starting to respond to the staggering lack of attorneys by releasing those who are awaiting trial without appointed counsel.
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Opinion: Biden-Trump debate mechanics raise hackles
These are trying times for the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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Opinion: Misguided rate increases ignore Maine ratepayers, clean energy developers
Maine is wrong to place the financial costs of the state’s climate plans on its own residents’ utility bills.
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Opinion: Heat waves are deadlier than hurricanes. Make them ‘disasters.’
Though this week’s heat wave will have all the hallmarks of a discrete natural disaster, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not treat it as such.
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Opinion: Nursing home staffing mandates must stand
The new mandates were the help we waited for and we celebrated. What is happening now is crushing to the spirit of every nurse I know.
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Douglas Rooks: Maine senators bring home the bacon, and then some
Earmarks provide encouragement for voters to believe someone is actually listening to them in Washington, the columnist writes.