From a low of just eight pairs in the 1980s to 125 pairs on Maine beaches last year, these birds can escape extinction with a fully funded Endangered Species Act.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Voices: Gardens can’t grow without bees and other bugs
Pesticides and herbicides have cut populations of as much as 80 percent of insect species around the world,
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Commentary: It’s way past time for sensible gun laws, safe spaces for our children and ourselves
Every day when we go to work in a children’s hospital, we know that today could be the day. The day when our community is in the news, and we are called to the Emergency Department to assist in caring for victims of a school shooting. We work more than 1,000 miles from each other, […]
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The View From Here: Living in Robert Bork’s America
Cheap shot or prophesy? What Ted Kennedy warned us of 35 years ago has come to pass.
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Maine Observer: Learning to love the sounds of a foggy beach
A tall-tale for tourists captures a piece of the truth when the mist gets thick.
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Commentary: Even if the DOJ prosecutes Trump, it’s the American people who need to repudiate the ‘big lie’
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Jim Fossel: As with many things, Biden got it wrong on inflation
Following their leader’s misdirection, Democrats are getting lost as they search for ways to counter it.
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Insight: There’s no single ‘religious view’ on abortion
A scholar of religion writes that views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
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Hilary Koch: Jan. 6 review asks question, Who is going to defend democracy?
Americans deserve to know how our president, who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect Americans, sat by, watched this attack, and refused to do his duty.
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Maine Voices: From under a desk, a silent student bears witness with a poem
The children are watching, a teacher pleads, and they can see we are not keeping them safe.