The media paint states as red, blue or purple at a time when our states need election systems that are red, white and blue.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: We can’t keep treating Haiti’s cycle of trauma with Band-Aid solutions
The poverty, corruption and instability there can be alleviated only if stakeholders in the recovery effort remain involved after the dead are buried.
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Mayor Casavant: Public-private partnerships find housing solutions for Biddeford’s working families
Across Maine, citizens, elected officials, municipal staff and business professionals will originate ideas that make real headway toward easing this historic housing crunch.
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Maine Compass: Maine Venture Fund helping to build state’s future
The fund is a primary force in the effort to recover from our pandemic hibernation, the new managing director writes.
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Maine Voices: Meeting our moral obligation to Afghans in peril will take swift, decisive action
Immediate evacuation is essential to avoiding the kinds of atrocities we’ve seen elsewhere when leadership failed.
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Bill Nemitz: Where Maine soldiers once tried to do the impossible, the Taliban now rule
For the Maine Army National Guard’s Bravo Company, the fall of Afghanistan is a cautionary tale.
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Maine Voices: Praising a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure
Senators from both parties worked with the Biden administration to pass this historic bill.
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Maine Voices: Lawmakers set course for future progress
Bills that would have made a difference in health care, the environment and corporate greed will not become law in Maine.
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan infrastructure bill good for democracy
You don’t need to be a fan of big spending to be happy with the $1 trillion legislation that the U.S. Senate just passed.
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Looking back a century – and counting – from ‘Petey’s Perch’
Peter Kaye of Topsham rings in his 100th birthday alongside Nancy, his 89-year-old ‘trophy wife.’