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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Compass: Stop use of immigration ‘iceboxes’
A Mainer reports on her conversations with asylum seekers stuck on the Mexican side of the southwest border.
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Commentary: Urge Washington to make it easier for Mainers to heat with renewable wood pellets, chips
Do you support extending an existing federal tax credit to advanced wood heating systems? Make sure our delegation knows it.
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Commentary: Speak up now to protect Atlantic puffins and the fish they rely on
Herring conservation measures will also benefit cod, salmon and many other predatory marine species.
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Bill Nemitz: Maine medical examiner thinks he’s a funny guy. He isn’t.
A job posting touting Maine’s ‘short season of decomposed bodies’ adds to the drumbeat against Dr. Mark Flomenbaum.
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Mavis Longfellow: Move mountains and count your blessings
When people get to be as old as I am, they are expected to be overflowing with wisdom and interesting life stories. We are asked about our secrets for a long and/or happy life. I don’t feel very wise, but I get by; I gripe about the losses of “the Golden Years” but I do […]
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Greg Kesich: Letters about vaccines blur the lines
As the old saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
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Jim Fossel: Portland right to put the brakes on surveillance tech
Police cameras in the schools and use of facial recognition software represent erosions of privacy that should not be taken lightly.
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The Maine Millennial: Losing her locks for a good cause
‘Hair Matters’ in South Portland makes wigs using donated hair for people who lose theirs from chemotherapy.
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Rep. Dick Campbell: Golden showing he’s no moderate
Since joining Congress, he has become just another Democrat.