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Commentary: Keep unspoiled Sears Island as it is – build wind hub somewhere else

by Stephen Miller Special to the Press Herald February 10, 2023February 9, 2023

Port operators at nearby Mack Point and Estes Head in Eastport are eager to host a site where offshore turbines can be made, assembled and launched.

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Maine Voices: The mail carrier is an infrequent visitor to our house these days

by Eileen Horton From the Press Herald February 10, 2023February 9, 2023

If we had electricity only one day a week, I’m sure Congress would do something about it. Who’s looking into the fiasco created by the postmaster general?

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Maine Compass: Catholic Church should allow priests to marry

by Phillip Davis For Central Maine News February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

That and other archaic rules, such as excluding women from the priesthood, do nothing but harm.

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Douglas Rooks: Welcome to the new Democratic economy

by Douglas Rooks For Central Maine News February 9, 2023February 10, 2023

After two years of what President Biden calls “building from the bottom up and the middle out,” the results confound pundits and are ignored by much of the news media.

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Maine Voices: What constitutes news depends on where you get the news

by Fred Wolff From the Press Herald February 9, 2023February 8, 2023

I decided to take media analysis into my own hands and was discouraged by what I found.

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Maine Compass: Check the box to end hunger in Maine

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023

The organizers of the World Food Program remind us that hunger is a problem that has plagued humanity for millennia. But just because it persists does not mean that we can’t be the generation that ends hunger. Based on statistics gathered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Maine now ranks seventh worst in the nation […]