A lack of affordable child care for working parents is a brake on Maine employers’ ability to hire.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Voices: Maine needs to ‘go big’ to meet climate goals
Maine cannot afford to reject projects like the western Maine energy corridor and a consumer-owned utility.
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Commentary: The real winner of the used car bubble revealed
Soaring used-car prices delivered an enormous windfall for automakers’ loan divisions, which are still riding the wave caused by the pandemic.
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Maine Voices: Making Made in America possible
International trade creates the markets that will bring back manufacturing and services that had been shipped overseas.
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The Maine Millennial: Farewell to a doctor who really cares
Retiring pulmonologist Paul LaPrad finished his career last week on the frontlines of the battle against COVID.
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Jim Fossel: Nuclear power is key to energy independence
The way to escape control of tyrants like Putin, we should exploit every kind of home grown energy.
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The View From Here: Governor’s race will be a long slog
We know the candidates as well as any that we’ve seen, but we still will have to listen to an eight-month slugfest.
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Maine Voices: We are failing our promise to Mainers with mental illness
Jails and hospital emergency departments are no substitute for a functioning community-based system of care.
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Bill Nemitz: To boldly go where no Maine rocket has gone before
Skepticism aside, bluShift Aerospace is poised to take our reputation for Yankee ingenuity to new heights.
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Maine Compass: Think it’s over for COVID time? Pick up your mask and read this rhyme
The pandemic is over, How do I know? You can take off your mask, The CDC says so. The virus contained? The vulnerable protected? Transmissions down? No more variants, surges suspected? Crack open the champagne, And burst into song! The pandemic is over, right? Um… well… truthfully? WRONG. “I don’t understand. I heard COVID’s endemic. […]