A commentary fails to acknowledge that Eastern Maine Electric’s rates are very close to CMP’s, though the investor-owned utility’s territory is much cheaper to serve.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Douglas Rooks: Voting rights can’t be left to states
The object should be creating minimum standards states must meet, something Congress has done before, such as the “motor-voter” law for registration access.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s senators must lead on gun-violence prevention
The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
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Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.
More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
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Maine Compass: Protect pollinators the right way
Banning neonicotinoids is not the answer because they are not the problem, a Somerset County commissioner writes.
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Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform
Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
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Commentary: Big Food wants us addicted to junk food. New brain science may break its grip
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Maine Compass: Restore Maine’s place as bastion of wild, native fish
A recent state proposal puts too much attention in harmful fish hatcheries, the chairman of the Maine chapter of the Native Fish Coalition writes.
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Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it
If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
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Jim Fossel: Senators, not Senate rules, make laws
Liberals complain about the filibuster, but repealing it would likely have little impact on the development of policy.