The first four dams on the river are not worth the harm they cause to the Kennebec and the entire Gulf of Maine.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: A little help on parsing inflation from New Hampshire’s Sununu
What we’re confronting today is primarily global; not just fueled but also fired up by the supply chain shutdown during the worst of the pandemic.
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Maine Voices: Why don’t we try listening to our anxiety?
Mental health experts often tell us to “breathe through” things. Faced with the terror and grief of today, that encouragement is misguided.
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Hilary Koch: I do my hair toss
The amount of time and money that women are forced to spend on their looks to be accepted in our society is absurd. And unhealthy.
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Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale
Let’s pull together for an endangered species that, as you may have noticed in recent weeks, has no constituency.
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The Maine Millennial: Don’t blame people for trying to take housing into their own hands
Portland’s ballot questions on short-term rentals and tenant protections didn’t fall from the sky.
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Commentary: Opioid epidemic’s undue burden on rural Maine requires our full attention
Investment in evidence-based approaches can help guide our rural communities out of crisis.
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Jim Fossel: So you can’t fight inflation. How about not adding to it?
When it comes to tempering the cost of living, President Biden could have done a whole lot more by doing a whole lot less.
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Commentary: If we’re serious about moving to clean energy, Maine needs Pine Tree Power
Thanks to our natural resources and our tradition of self-reliance, Maine could become a regional clean energy powerhouse. The transition must work for everyone.
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Sen. Rick Bennett: Should we call this case Frey v. Frey?
A subpoena by the Maine Government Oversight Committee to obtain the DHHS records of four slain children highlights a conflict of interest between two branches of state government.