A new website aims to inform government employees about workplace freedom and organized labor’s efforts to undercut it.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: Don’t claim to be inclusive of ‘everyone’ if you don’t want Trump supporters
Our society is sharply polarized for a bunch of reasons, but one that sticks out in my mind is the prevailing sense of righteousness. You see it all the time in online debates — the other side isn’t just mistaken, it’s deficient, or venal, or immoral, or even evil. Exhibit A is the new policy […]
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Pay-it-forward reciprocity is key to a civilized, abundant future
Our culture has rarely been as pessimistic as it is today – but the hell into which we’re descending isn’t inevitable.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Former Gov. Baldacci, a board member, hides from questions about CMP
Democrat John Baldacci, now a corporate leader for Central Maine Power’s parent corporation, has little to say about the company’s mistreatment of its customers.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
George Smith: Take time to visit Downeast Maine
It’s a little out of the way, but it’s worth it.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Children – and battery electric school buses – are our future
A new federal bill will help districts get the resources they need to provide tens of thousands of young Mainers with healthy air to breathe and a safe ride to school.
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Commentary: Regulation needed in ‘anything goes’ CBD environment
Years ago, I was a leukemia patient and bone marrow transplant recipient confronting an extremely difficult decision: Do I continue down an uncontrolled, life-threatening spiral caused by “wasting syndrome” (persistent and potentially fatal weight loss), or do I try an unproven, unregulated, illegal and potentially toxic approach — cannabis? My oncologist was reluctant to make […]
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Maine public advocate: T-Mobile merger, NECEC corridor would help fix our state’s broadband crisis
Both New T-Mobile and New England Clean Energy Connect have made committed to improving rural internet access.
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Jim Fossel: Politics of resentment hold us back
No one wins by blocking economic success or the expansion of human rights.
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Commentary: What’s going on in Congo
No territory on Earth has been plundered so long and severely as the land that is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The first thefts were of human beings. For hundreds of years, slave traders from the Arab and Islamic world raided what’s now the eastern part of the country, bordering several of Africa’s great […]