Olympic host cities make promises that are all but impossible to keep, and in recent years, the organizers’ wishful thinking about housing and neighborhood redevelopment has been one of the cruelest Olympic disappointments. With the 2024 Paris Games, we are seeing it all over again — displacement, gentrification and the unhoused “voluntarily” lured elsewhere with […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: Three cheers for a TV show about something
For two hours each week, ‘America’s Got Talent’ removes us from the confines of the box in which we sometimes find ourselves.
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Opinion: Behold our latest ‘American Crisis’
The question is: Are we going to let this happen?
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Hilary Koch: ‘We rise together, or we fall apart’
True to his colors, Trump immediately backtracked on his words of unity. Can Kamala Harris offer the leadership the country needs?
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Opinion: It is violent to deny reproductive rights
Neither lawmakers nor the media pay enough attention to the troubling ramifications of limiting abortion access.
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Commentary: Global heating is no longer a tomorrow problem. It’s today’s
For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records tumbling relentlessly, it’s becoming clear that tomorrow has basically arrived. We are the hapless grandchildren. And it’s also becoming clear that we’re not ready for the heat. Monday was the hottest day […]
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Commentary: A messaging mess for Democrats — 3 dumb arguments so far about Trump, Harris, Biden
Two days into the reshaped presidential race, we have a sense of Democrats’ initial attempts to define the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The messaging is not impressive. Three prominent arguments so far are a stretch at best and downright fantasy at worst. Let’s take a look. Biden is a great president and […]
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Opinion: Legislature’s Housing Committee has tackled Maine’s crisis head on
We hope to continue this work on behalf of Maine’s people, fueling what works and fixing what doesn’t.
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Healthy Lakes: Green lake? Maine has a blueprint for that
Hundreds of lakes in Maine are connected to each other. This is the story of two connected lakes. Lake A is the upstream lake, Lake B the downstream one. No need to name them as the problem addressed is statewide. The two lakes are in one of the four counties I tow my boat to […]
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Commentary: Can Kamala Harris change a presidential race barely affected by a series of seismic events?
Donald Trump famously said in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters.” What sounded like an extraordinary exaggeration at the time has essentially been proven correct: Despite a cascade of disasters, defeats, impeachments, indictments and other events that would have derailed other politicians’ […]