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The Maine Millennial: Accounting for pain got lost amid addiction to profit

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal August 25, 2019August 23, 2019

Drug companies and liquor bottlers can’t be expected to regulate themselves.

Maine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: We have created a culture of fear that needs to change

by Rachel Joiner Special to the Telegram August 25, 2019August 24, 2019

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.

Bill Nemitz, Op-Eds, Opinion

Bill Nemitz: The good news: A mass shooting didn’t happen in Maine last week

by Bill Nemitz August 25, 2019August 24, 2019

How can we head off the threat of a mass shooting? Police in Maine, alerted by a woman in New York, just did.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Cal Thomas: You didn’t build that II

by Cal Thomas August 24, 2019August 23, 2019

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 […]

Maine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: Long-buried U.S. nuclear waste would complicate any bid for Greenland

by Dan Possumato Special to the Press Herald August 24, 2019August 25, 2019

Would the U.S. or Denmark be responsible for cleaning up over 47,000 gallons of Cold War-era radioactive waste?

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide was part of a much bigger crisis in US jails and prisons

by Beth Shelburne August 24, 2019August 23, 2019

The New York City medical examiner’s ruling that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in jail has prompted a lot of hand-wringing about conditions in the facility where he was held. But if the nation had been paying attention, no one would have been particularly surprised by what happened. The United States is in the […]

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Commentary: A smarter way to curb drug prices

by Henry I. Miller & John J. Cohrssen August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

The Trump administration recently announced steps that could lead to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, where prices are lower. It is a goal supported by President Donald Trump, but long opposed by many Republicans. This latest initiative would allow states, pharmacies and drugmakers to seek federal approval for demonstration projects to import drugs […]