Democrats are talking seriously about ending the legislative filibuster once and for all, effectively changing the number of Senate votes required to pass a bill from 60 to 51. The result would be a transformation in the way the U.S. Senate has operated for well over a century and a half. This may seem like […]
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Maine Voices: Bearing witness to a child detention facility
Standing on ladders in a hot Florida swamp, activists deliver a message of love to detained minors.
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Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote
Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.
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Mavis Longfellow: Can’t we do better?
We all know a lot of good people — caring people — in every age bracket. Most youngsters and young adults deserve praise and inspire pride. Parents want their children to grow up to be law-abiding, productive, good citizens. That said, the fact remains that we have a huge problem with crime — drugs, numerous […]
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Another View: Mainers have no obligation to sign people’s veto petitions
No one should support a position with which they disagree just to send the question to the voters.
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan foreign policy is not weakness
The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are driving a political wedge between Americans and Israelis.
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The Maine Millennial: Accounting for pain got lost amid addiction to profit
Drug companies and liquor bottlers can’t be expected to regulate themselves.
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Maine Voices: We have created a culture of fear that needs to change
Lockdown drills won’t save children from bullets any more than the ‘duck and cover’ drills of the 1950s would have saved them from nuclear war.
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Bill Nemitz: The good news: A mass shooting didn’t happen in Maine last week
How can we head off the threat of a mass shooting? Police in Maine, alerted by a woman in New York, just did.
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Cal Thomas: You didn’t build that II
Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever level of success we have attained. The president suggested no […]