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Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Voices: Let’s seize opportunity to boost the health of our state’s rivers
With incoming infrastructure funding, Maine should prioritize dam removals over dam repairs and technical fishways.
The Maine Millennial: I’ve got good news about kidney donation – pass it on
My friend Ted received one, and my goal is to take part in a living donor transplant swap.
Jim Fossel: Good Samaritan compromise got in the way of good policy
The original version of L.D. 1862 could have saved Mainers’ lives without making government any bigger. What was wrong with that?
Lynn Schmidt: A million American lives lost to the pandemic deserve to be remembered
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
Commentary: Lead in water harms red states, too
Some 10 million lead pipes carry – and potentially contaminate – U.S. drinking water. By putting partisan politics aside, members of Congress could solve this.
Maine Voices: Older Mainers deserve relief from high prescription drug costs
Congress has the power to get to the very heart of the problem – out-of-control drug prices – and right this wrong.
Maine Voices: Why the U.S. must not intervene in Ukraine
As Vladimir Putin is backed snarling into a corner, we are now only a few bad decisions away from nuclear annihilation.
Bill Nemitz: My new, Maine-made Ukrainian flag – long may it wave
The blue-and-yellow banner should serve as a beacon to defenders of democracy the world over.
Hal Brands: Ukraine war is depleting America’s arsenal of democracy
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)