An editorial was wrong to blame GOP policies for increasing the ranks of the uninsured, when the real problem is the seriously flawed Affordable Care Act.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: More policymakers should support Maine’s leaders in addressing bone health
Stepped-up screening and treatment will ease the toll of osteoporosis, both personally and economically.
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Maine Voices: Children need to hear the truth about vaping
Hard fought reductions in teen smoking are being lost to the rise of the use of e-cigarettes.
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Commentary: Texan offers Mainers a practical primer on U.S. Border ‘patrolling’
Given a new chief Border Patrol agent’s plans to expand warrantless searches here, Mainers should prepare for challenges to their constitutional rights.
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Maine Compass: Make room for Maine youth on skiing, snowboarding slopes
Sugarloaf initiatives are working to expand winter sports access to kids in Franklin and Somerset counties who are being squeezed out by high costs.
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Commentary: Despite crisis, church remains an oasis
What’s the difference between a house of worship and a house of horrors? Can it be something as simple and capricious as blind luck? If so, I guess I’m one of countless lucky ones — a veteran of an area Catholic elementary school who is watching the church’s still-roiling clergy sex abuse scandal with an […]
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Doyle McManus: The US has Iran cornered, and that’s part of the problem
Almost 800 years ago, the Persian poet Sa’adi offered a useful warning: Do you not see how the cornered cat Will tear out the eyes of a leopard with its tiny claws? In today’s Middle East, Iran — besieged by the more powerful United States, its economy in tatters, its military stretched thin — is […]
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Mavis Longfellow: Better than pearls and opals
It happened one summer night several years ago. After work, my husband and I hastily got ready to attend a recital in the early evening. We left the house in a hurry, not wanting to be late. It was still early, just getting dark, when we returned home. The house smelled warmly of the pie […]
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Bill Nemitz: Birds are dying, and that’s a wake-up call for us
If the loss of 2.9 billion birds over the last 50 years doesn’t shock you, maybe it’s time for a walk in the woods.
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Jim Fossel: Collins took right tack to oppose Trump on wall
She rightly supports a new vote to undo the president’s emergency declaration, and rightly opposed a Democratic plan to block funds for it and other projects.