Clearly, we have much to celebrate. But we must also continue working to make it right.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: Court decision elevates municipal concerns over those of the homeless
Maine’s best guarantee of thwarting a crisis of unhoused people is to make sure every municipality has a plan to offer emergency shelter.
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Opinion: Trump’s Big Lie isn’t just a national scourge
If the former president and his allies prevail in November, we’ll need principled local leaders to stand up against malevolence and chicanery.
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Commentary: The surgeon general acknowledged America’s gun violence emergency. Here’s why that matters
Hey, cheer up: The news is not all bad. The federal government acknowledged for the first time last week that gun violence is an urgent public health crisis. You already knew that, of course. We all knew it. But thanks to the gun lobby’s stranglehold on our political class, it’s been nearly impossible to focus […]
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Opinion: Maine needs to pass a red flag law – now
Give families the right to seek emergency orders to remove guns from dangerous relatives. It’s that simple.
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Commentary: The supreme hubris of John Roberts
You don’t have to be a big fan of Chief Justice John Roberts to concede that he wouldn’t dream of jet-setting around the country at a conservative billionaire’s expense or hanging outside his home a favorite flag of 2020 election deniers or Christian nationalists. But then why, you must be wondering, was he so unwilling […]
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Douglas Rooks: Biden’s dilemma goes to the heart of democracy
Voters should ask themselves whose policies would most benefit the American people, and the world for which the United States is still a leading force, writes the columnist.
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Opinion: The Chevron doctrine is dead, long live the Chevron doctrine
Do we really want courts deciding complicated questions of science and medicine? We don’t – and Maine can do better.
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Maine Compass: This July 4, let’s celebrate our interdependence as well
In these days of division, it’s easy to forget how much we depend on each other, writes state Rep. Sally Cluchey of Bowdoinham.
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Commentary: Not much clarity in the Supreme Court’s immunity decision
Anyone who expected the Supreme Court to give clear guidance on the extent to which former President Donald Trump can be tried (and tried and tried) for the crimes of which he has been accused must surely be disappointed with the complexity of what the justices decided in Trump v. United States. The case was […]