With the implementation of best practices, visiting a Maine senior living facility should now be safer than visiting the local grocery store.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Another View: Where do you stand?
The protests today are about refusing to run from the truth.
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Maine Voices: Rejection of LGBTQ youth can be fatal
It is time for older folks to accept young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.
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The Maine Millennial: Imagining a summer without the Sea Dogs
We’ll probably have to wait until next year before we can eat a cold ice cream sandwich in a hot seat in the grandstand of Hadlock Field.
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Maine Compass: Dad’s lessons could have made for an uncomplicated life
The writer’s father lived to see his daughters get a better life. But was it?
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan consensus possible on police reform
But as long as the Maine Legislature is not in session, no laws can pass here.
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Insight: Malaga’s legacy speaks to our time
Ruthless, racially motivated actions by Maine’s government a century ago expose biases that are still with us.
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Maine Voices: It shouldn’t take a pandemic to raise awareness of the ‘homework gap’
A national solution is needed to ensure that cost or lack of infrastructure won’t keep kids from accessing broadband.
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Rep. Fecteau: Unemployment system failed Mainers in 2017 and once more in 2020
Though $802 million in benefits have been paid out, too many Mainers remain in limbo because of a faulty system installed under the LePage administration.
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Sen. Timberlake: Gideon focusing on U.S. Senate campaign at expense of Maine people’s needs
The Maine House speaker wants the federal government to step up COVID recovery efforts when she hasn’t lifted a finger here.