One of the most demoralizing things about the world’s response to the climate crisis is the fossil fuel industry’s continued success in blocking the pollution-cutting actions that are in the interest of all of humanity. The solution to our predicament couldn’t be clearer: We need to stop burning fossil fuels and pumping pollution into the […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Compass: Let’s get the facts right in the solar debate
In the legitimate debate about how to best incentivize, value and price electricity from solar farms, I would have thought we had left the period of half-truths and completely busted myths behind. Yet, the recent op-ed piece by Gerry Chasse (“Solar program raising rates,” May 22) shows that common sense and good economic policy requires […]
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Scholars Strategy Network: In turbulent times, Maine makes investments in its people
The times in which we live are, and have been, difficult. Turbulence confronts us at every corner, upon every turn. Around us things are constantly changing — economically, politically, medically, socially. There is too often too little upon which to rely to attain and maintain a degree of certainty in one’s life. As we emerge […]
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Commentary: Federal program backing online access is key to Maine’s future
The Affordable Connectivity Program supports access to education – and much, much more.
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Commentary: Lawsuit against Gov. Mills, legislative leaders is about more than politics
I’ve been frustrated and angry with Maine politics. I was lucky to meet people who feel the same. We talked ourselves into being bold enough to take action. We’re not insiders, and we are too stubborn to accept being unable to change “the way things are done.” After watching the Legislature unravel in March, we […]
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Dan Rodricks: Attacking the fentanyl crisis — have to do it all, haven’t done enough
I once gave a drug dealer some career advice: Sell cars, not cocaine. The guy seemed open to that idea. He had come to me in the summer of 2005, after reading one of several columns in which we offered advice for “getting out of the game.” He was about 30 years old, dressed in […]
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LZ Granderson: Yacht-busting orcas and board-stealing otters? The Earth is angry
A handful of college students caught a record-breaking 19-foot Burmese python in Florida last week. That’s longer than the width of an NFL goal post. Jake Waleri, an amateur hunter himself, said he wanted to show his friends “the true Florida experience,” and so he decided to take them into Big Cypress National Preserve in […]
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Commentary: ‘Oppenheimer’ is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?
In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that […]
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The Maine Millennial: Depression is a mental illness, and that’s OK
Deciding not to talk about a problem doesn’t make it go away.
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Commentary: Here’s a better way to lower ‘standard offer’ electricity costs
What about introducing a system that would enhance competition, producing even lower costs?