Firefighters from ‘every corner’ of Maine fall in to support their brethren after Monday’s deadly explosion in Farmington.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Compass: Tourism should be part of Maine economic development plan
The largest private industry in Maine, it creates a diverse and sustainable economy and draws innovators and entrepreneurs.
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Maine Voices: Let’s leverage the tools the Founders gave us to fight climate change
HR 763 – which would put a fee on carbon and return the proceeds to American households – is an idea whose time has come.
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Maine Compass: Youth lead way on climate
We need to continue to teach students how to affect change in their communities.
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George Smith: To columnist Bill Caldwell, Maine was the ‘best beat of all’
Bill Caldwell was one of my favorite newspaper columnists, partly because he really focused on the Maine he and I loved. Bill wrote for the Portland Press Herald twice a week and for the Sunday Telegram on Sundays for 25 years, writing about 3,000 columns before retiring in 1991. He had spent seven years in […]
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Maine Voices: A public option is not enough – Maine needs universal coverage
A single state health plan would have greater bargaining power, control costs and improve Mainers’ health.
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Another View: When Congress failed, Maine stepped in on drug prices
Sen. Susan Collins and other politicians in Washington talk a lot about taking on Big Pharma – lawmakers in Augusta actually do it.
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CMP executive: Electric utility is committed to a transparent auditing process
Though a recent editorial said otherwise, the truth is that all three independent analyses of CMP’s billing system were thorough and meticulous.
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Maine Compass: Treat the opioid crisis with hope
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine is fighting for resources to take on the crisis, a Maine physician and former legislator says.
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Commentary: ‘Sharpiegate’ and Trump’s unchecked presidential powers
When a White House Sharpie user recently doctored a National Hurricane Center map to expand the projected path of Hurricane Dorian to Alabama, media critics and the Twitter-verse exploded. Here’s proof positive, they said, that President Trump ignores reality and literally stretches the truth to serve his own political purposes and to stroke his own […]