A culture of hunting for food is one thing; a culture of hunting one another is for the movies, not for Maine.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: Balance state spending on mental health and the regulation of guns
Maine has been doing its part on mental health care for a while. Effective gun safety measures are the obvious next step.
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Opinion: Nurse-to-patient ratios are a necessity
Patient loads for nurses creates an untenable situation for the patient and the caregiver. Support L.D. 1639.
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Opinion: Greater access to reproductive health care is a rising tide
Funding for family planning services in our state deserves to be increased.
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Opinion: Raising the retirement age won’t help anyone
Increasing the retirement age essentially singles out the very worse-off class of older adults – and makes them worse off.
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Opinion: Maine’s foster care children deserve their benefits
Our foster children are missing out on opportunities to accumulate savings for their future. That’s wrong.
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Douglas Rooks: Getting a handle on the explosion of bills at the Legislature
The basic legislative rules haven’t been changed significantly in decades, and it’s questionable whether they still serve us well.
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Commentary: March Madness as we know it faces extinction
The process of getting in is where the problems start – and what has long inspired discussions about alternatives to the tournament.
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Maine Compass: More support needed to build vital, viable child care workforce
L.D. 2199 correctly recognizes that subsidy rates should be based on enrollment, not attendance.
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Scholars Strategy Network: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
This series will examine how things have changed for Mainers, and why it is almost always for the better, the authors write.