The state has a mixed record at best when it comes to providing care for children with behavioral health needs.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Bill Nemitz: Rootin’ for Putin, Tucker Carlson becomes Maine’s official state embarrassment
The Fox News star, who often broadcasts from near his home in Maine, hit a new low last week with his take on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Jim Fossel: Maine needs more competition in gambling
A sports betting monopoly for the Wabanaki tribes would be a bad deal for everyone.
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The Maine Millennial: Expanded ‘Good Samaritan’ law needed to slow Maine overdose deaths
When what you are doing doesn’t work, it’s time to try something else. Our current drug policies aren’t working.
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The View From Here: New Cold War needs a new Free World
Russian tanks in Ukraine signal the end of the idea that free markets would bring old enemies together.
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Maine Voices: Invasion evokes ghosts of the Nazi past in Russia, Ukraine
Putin in particular is skilled in using language and imagery to play to an audience all too familiar with the realities of occupation.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf: A different Europe faces this Russian aggression
The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
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Trudy Rubin: What the UN should do about Russia
The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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Maine Med president: Lack of state mental health investment is major factor in ER violence
MMC nurses are right to protest, as emergency rooms have become a place of last resort for people who have a diagnosis but can’t access appropriate treatment options.
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Tom Waddell: Extreme religious movement advances in the U.S.
Christian nationalism has been pushed openly for decades, and it had a hand in the Jan. 6 insurrection.