Sen. Susan Collins’s already famous response to Donald Trump’s indictment — “I don’t know what to make of it” — speaks for many, especially the news media. Despite the incessant chatter about the 2024 presidential race — who’s in, who’s out, who’s ahead, what the hourly polls say — the way forward seems cloudy, if […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: If the U.S. wishes to halt flow of asylum seekers, it must make an effort to prevent war
Once war starts, very few countries have been able to quickly recover. President Biden’s latest immigration proposals seem to ignore that fact.
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Maine Voices: Greatness in women’s basketball? It’s nothing new
Women athletes have been dazzling on the court for over a hundred years.
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Commentary: Maine must stop trying to bypass SCOTUS decision on schools
The outcome in Carson v. Makin made clear that such religious discrimination in our education system must end. Why hasn’t it?
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Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true
Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.
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Maine Voices: As 2024 election ramps up, parties must seek statesmen for candidates
We’ve seen the impact on our country of a president who peddles deceit, brews trouble and incites hostility.
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Maine Compass: Along with gun ownership should come great responsibility
The process to buy a gun should be more rigorous.
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Commentary: Protect women athletes? Show me the money
Laws requiring equal financing and equal pay for men’s and women’s teams would benefit dozens of women athletes at USM and Bowdoin – and thousands nationwide.
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Commentary: Maine response to PFAS amounts to regulatory overreach
Regulators underestimate the cost of implementing PFAS regulations and fundamentally misunderstand the complex nature of these compounds.
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Commentary: Transition to green energy impossible without the right grid
Our grid systems are totally inadequate for the task ahead. Not that you’ll hear fossil fuel interests complaining.