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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Compass: Our state’s actions are key to reversing trend of bird population decline
Well-managed forests can sustain livelihoods while ensuring that birds still have places to nest and raise their young.
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Maine Compass: Collins’ vote to confirm Kavanaugh represented best hope to preserve Roe
With the GOP poised to increase its Senate majority around the time of the vote, Kavanaugh’s rejection would have paved the way for a nominee more hostile to the right to choose.
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Maine Voices: Maine courts need a science and technology adviser
The outcome of a recent rockweed-harvesting case underscores the need to provide judges with unique expertise.
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Reps. Fay and Ingwersen: For Maine to beat forever chemicals, we need federal and state solutions
It’s heartening that Maine will be phasing out the use of toxic PFAS in food packaging, but that’s just a first step.
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Doyle McManus: Hunter Biden — and Trump’s children — follow a long line of White House relatives cashing in
The tangled tale of Hunter Biden is worthy of a Russian, or maybe Ukrainian, novel: A ne’er-do-well son goes abroad to seek his fortune, but succeeds only in endangering his father’s presidential campaign. In 2014, Hunter, a not-very-successful lawyer who had been in and out of alcohol rehabilitation and debt, landed a lucrative job working […]
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Jay Ambrose: Could a President Pence save the Republicans?
In 2008, Esquire magazine named him one of the 10 best members of Congress, a forever principled conservative, never a party hack. And a question is whether he might be among the country’s top presidents, this smooth-talking, gently paced Mike Pence. It’s possible, at the least, that he could in fact become president, given the […]
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George Smith: Millinocket deserves credit for revival
The community has rebounded by taking advantage of its natural resources.
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Maine Compass: ‘Glean’ to fight hunger
Excess produce can help Mainers who are food insecure.
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Commentary: An ethical framework for animal research
Change is afoot in the controversial world of animal research, but it needs guidance from an adequate ethical framework. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just announced it will drastically scale back and eventually eliminate studies testing chemicals on mammals. Veterans Affairs is considering a stop to invasive canine research. Earlier this decade, the National Institutes […]