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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Voices: ‘Comprehensive immigration reform’ won’t resolve migrant crisis
The best way to deal with the surge is to require asylum seekers to apply from home or a third country, not at the border.
Another View: Electric cars vs. climate change
The Heritage Foundation recently wrote a misleading column to undermine government support for electric vehicles. The column says that extending the $7,000 federal electric vehicle tax credit for 10 more years would cost taxpayers a “massively expensive” $16 billion, a drop in the hat as compared with fossil fuel subsidies. A recent Forbes article states […]
Maine Voices: Death with dignity gives patients the opportunity to end life on their own terms
Relieving personal suffering shouldn’t entail the risk of prolonging it.
Commentary: Democratic debate further revealed single-payer minefield
The Affordable Care Act would not have made it through Congress had Democrats not conceded to Republicans on two polarizing points: No federal taxpayer dollars could be spent either on abortions or on insurance for immigrants living in the country illegally. On a debate stage occupied only by would-be Democratic presidential candidates, however, no such […]
Trudy Rubin: The Trump-Putin show at G-20 undermines liberal democracy
President Donald Trump got trolled by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 world leaders summit in Osaka. He was having so much fun joking with Vladimir, he seemed blissfully unaware. Just prior to the summit, Putin gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he laid out his belief that the […]
Maine Voices: Why criticizing Trump doesn’t convince his supporters to abandon their man
Devotion to the president is a religion, and you can’t talk people out of faith.
Maine Voices: Time for public higher education to walk the walk on equal pay
For too long, poverty wages have been the norm in adjunct teaching, a profession dominated by women. State officials must change that.
Eric Zorn: I can’t get my mind off the final, frantic embrace of the drowning girl and her father
The little arm gets me every time. It’s the slack right arm of Valeria, a dead, 23-month-old Salvadoran girl, draped around the neck of her dead father as they lie face down in the muddy reeds on the banks of the Rio Grande in the indelible news photographs making headlines last week. It’s the arm […]
The Maine Millennial: Be a voice against anti-trans bigotry
Maine’s delegation should resist efforts to take away legal protections, and Mainers should speak up when we see workplace bias or hear hurtful jokes.