Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. It’s one senseless and horrific mass shooting after another, and you’re hit with waves of sadness, anger and frustration. If 20 children were massacred at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012 and the sensible gun control proposals that followed were handily defeated, is there any way ordinary citizens can ever overcome […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Amy Calder: Dealing with a lot of hot air
Amy Calder reflects on days when air conditioning was scarce and kids in school just suffered in the heat.
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Maine Voices: Investment, not tariffs, the way to compete with China
Instead of slowing China’s economy, we should do more to meet the challenge with innovation.
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The Maine Millennial: The next step toward adulthood arrives
A shy mutt named Janey joins the household, learning the joys of walks and even bonding with the cat.
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Jody Rich, Waterville: The truth lurking behind the words
It was frigid, midwinter 1991. I was 35 years old. The all-women’s party had been on the calendar for weeks. These parties, dear reader, were underground celebrations. Dozens of women from all over the area and all walks of life could stand around with a beer in one hand and talk softball, politics, work, tell […]
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Maine Voices: Flag reaches final resting place, in memory of a soldier
A movie depicting World War I prompts a search for a home for a relic of a great-uncle’s service.
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Peter Gordon, Portland: Hope is just a phone call away
I’ll never forget the search coordinator’s first words after I picked up the phone: “Peter, are you sitting down?” Well, I was at the time, but when she broke the news, I jumped out of my seat screaming and punching my fist in the air, then dissolved into tears and sobs. When I called my […]
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Jim Fossel: GOP candidates should say what they are for
It’s not too soon to identify issues that most Republicans agree on, and set the party’s agenda for 2020.
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J. Lauren Sangster, Portland: A voice from the past still soothes
When I think of a phone call that means something to me, I think of a voicemail from Mike. I found it sometime after Mike passed away, still sitting in the in-box on my phone since the day he left it, Aug. 8, 2018. For a while I listened to the words, “I saw you […]
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Commissioner Liberty: Editorial casts Maine’s correctional system in unduly bleak light
The rehabilitation of our friends, family and neighbors drives the system and Maine’s Department of Corrections.