The state party’s recent convention shows that it is spinning the same prejudices and moral panics that show up down south.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: The US response to COVID-19 hasn’t been a train wreck. We’re just average
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Maine Voices: Next top BIW official should take steps to heal breach with workers
Whoever succeeds Dirk Lesko must realize that a sense of betrayal lingers from a 1984 false alarm regarding the need to reduce wages and benefits.
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Maine Compass: Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month
In 25 years since the planting and dedication of the Gingko trees at the Augusta Civic Center, the numbers of Asians has increased in this community and across the state.
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Maine Compass: CMP corridor remains important part of climate strategy
The campaign to defeat the corridor played on the emotions of Mainers and nativist past to make its final point. It’s time for useless rhetoric such as this to be put to bed.
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Maine Voices: Leaked ruling overturning Roe flouts legal system’s standards
Justice Samuel Alito has failed to demonstrate any reason why the court should not be bound by its earlier decision.
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Maine Compass: Our rivers should be alive and productive. Brookfield is not helping
For more than 50 years I have been a resident of Benton, Maine. I am a Republican, and a retired selectman and town treasurer. I am concerned for the health of all Maine waters and, especially, the Kennebec River. As Benton’s Alewife Warden I observe effective fish passage benefitting people and wildlife in the Sebasticook […]
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Douglas Rooks: Stockholm Syndrome is the Democrats’ problem, not ours
The party spends too much wallowing. It’s time to fight.
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Maine Voices: We need a DHHS that is open to legislators, Maine’s people
Legitimate legislative scrutiny sparked by the state watchdog’s report on the Office of Child and Family Services has resulted in a circling of the wagons.
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Maine Voices: We are oppressing one another in this country, and it needs to stop
If a lack of unity, tolerance and love persists in the United States, then we are no longer united; therefore, the basis for our country no longer exists.