Casella’s recent sudden decision to stop landfilling sludge at Juniper Ridge is a blatant attempt to undo vital legislation and is a classic bullying tactic.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: The Willow Project is a carbon bomb. Biden just lit the match
The Willow Project may seem far-removed from our two Portlands. The reality is it has grave consequences for the ocean, which many Mainers and Oregonians rely on.
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Commentary: Fearmongering diverts attention from real threats of gender oppression
Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said gender equality worldwide is now 300 years away and “vanishing before our eyes.”
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Jim Fossel: Biden budget beggars belief
If a spoiled child concocted a federal budget proposal, it’d look a lot like the one Biden just unveiled.
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Commentary: Who lived here until Europe showed up on the shore?
I walk the land in Westbrook and think about all that colonizers attempted to eliminate – and how little evidence of that is on display.
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The Maine Millennial: Hello Tinder, my old friend
Men of Maine: I mustache you some questions.
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Commentary: An immigration parable in Portland’s West End
How deeply strange to celebrate the years-old arrival and assimilation of people while struggling with the arrival and assimilation of people today.
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Maine Voices: We have a duty to remove the many barriers to people with disabilities
The most simple willingness to listen and adapt makes a world of difference.
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Commentary: Hope for Maine’s fishing industry in the form of a waterfront bill
The legislation would allow land trusts to play a role in the protection and preservation of working waterfront property.
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Maine Compass: Maine should renew Pine Tree Development Zone Program to power economic growth
If 2023 is to become a year of economic growth in Maine, the state’s economic leaders need every tool in their toolbox. Whatever can be done to bring businesses and jobs to the Pine Tree State should be done. As the head of FirstPark, one of Maine’s leading business parks, I work to open our […]