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Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Compass: Our flawed health care system requires a full overhaul
A statewide single-payer plan would have far-ranging benefits.
Maine Voices: Jeopardizing environmental assets makes no economic sense
Aquaculture and brownfield redevelopment are among the state’s pluses that cuts could harm.
Maine Compass: The moral case for Mainecare
We can’t sit back and watch as an important part of the safety net is dismantled.
George Smith: We need to kill more turkeys
Bringing them back to Maine may have been a mistake.
From the State House: Ban ‘previous salary’ question to close gender wage gap
We know inequality will not end overnight. But we owe it to Maine women to use every tool available.
Maine Compass: Let government fund health care and insurance companies run the show
Susan Collins has the right idea of expanding coverage while deregulating the market.
Maine Voices: It’s time to end the government’s assault on the poor
Making it more difficult for the needy to obtain medical care violates the moral principles at the core of Christianity.
Jimmy Carter: Trump is right about Canadian lumber imports
This belated enforcement of U.S. trade laws will help timberland owners and American forestry workers.
Jim Fossel: Maine’s third-party challenges
A group backed by Eliot Cutler is making a run at the 2018 election, but making waves in Augusta will be tough.