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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Voices: Youth vote will be critical to our climate response
As a scientist, I’d rather be working on graphs and describing solutions to the climate crisis. But upcoming elections matter.
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Commentary: Biden’s student debt cancellation is a welcome starting point
We can and should do more to relieve those struggling under this burden – and to assist the scholars of the future.
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Maine Voices: State grants, loans require a delicate balancing act
The Maine Technology Institute awards vital funding to businesses across the state – businesses like mine. Some of that information it can share, some it can’t.
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Douglas Rooks: Reflections on a smartphone and a giant tree
As Labor Day nears, let’s take some time to take stock.
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Community Compass: Waterville can ‘revitalize’ by lifting up its most vulnerable
A thriving community for all of us requires first and foremost that we act to lift the weight of poverty off the backs of those being crushed by it, a Waterville resident writes.
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Commentary: Scientists love issuing warnings. Here’s one for them.
When it comes to both COVID and climate change, don’t condescend – suggest steps people can take that have a positive impact.
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Lynn Schmidt: The nation’s health may well depend on people getting to know each other again
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Maine Voices: Let’s take a leaf out of California’s book on clean cars
The Golden State is expected to move forward with ambitious emissions regulation later this week. It sends a signal to the global auto market – and to states like Maine.
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Commentary: My students’ relationship with their phones makes me worry about their future
Heading into my 20th year teaching high school English, I’m more concerned than ever about how digitally dependent our teenagers have become.