What is harming the ‘daily lives of Americans’ is not regulatory overreach. It’s constant exposure to hazardous chemicals damaging our health.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Douglas Rooks: Budgeting the majority way, like everyone else
Maine should retire a gimmick that only makes forming a state budget more difficult.
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Speaker Talbot Ross: ‘Health care for all’ must not rule out immigrants
It’s time to close a small but unjust gap in MaineCare and return our state to its longstanding practice of greater inclusion.
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Commentary: It’s time to talk about fentanyl ingestion in children
The first problem is failure to test for fentanyl when a drug test is ordered. The second problem is timely recognition and treatment of opioid ingestion in children, which is nowhere near as rare as we like to think.
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Maine Compass: Our state’s industries need child care reform to succeed
One common sight in any Maine town these days is a “Help Wanted” sign. For our industries and others, the greatest barrier we face today is the lack of available workforce and low workforce participation. These issues are especially challenging for rural businesses where the services required to support a robust workforce are lacking. One […]
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Michael Hiltzik: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
Years of widening economic inequality, compounded by the pandemic and political storm and stress, have given Americans the impression that the country is on the wrong track. Now there’s empirical data to show just how far the country has run off the rails: Life expectancies have been falling. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
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The Maine Millennial: No public mission, no public money
It’s the Bangor Christian School’s style of faith that has turned my generation away from organized religion.
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Jim Fossel: These days, why compromise at all?
America seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term. What we have instead freezes discussion and fosters discord.
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Hilary Koch: It’s time to celebrate women’s basketball
The debate over the women’s Final Four was in the wrong place.
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Maine Voices: Consider Jesus’s preferred pronouns
In Maine and elsewhere, transphobic legislation seeks to enshrine a dangerous and unorthodox notion of religious freedom.