The football player’s refusal to stand for the national anthem stirred controversy but helped no one.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Keillor: In a technology-obsessed world, fair offers respite from current events
Even the GOP nominee is little more than a small sideshow amid tractors and petting zoos.
Column: Maine has long had a significant issue with institutional racisim
And now Republicans stand by LePage’s racist rhetorics, while Democrats show no moral backbone.
Column: Fifteen years after 9/11, are we safer?
A Maine man with a front-row seat to the federal response on that day reflects on what has happened since.
Caron: Our standards for political leaders has fallen
It wasn’t that long ago that Maine could take justifiably pride in the people it elected.
Roberts: A letter from Gov. LePage to all Mainers
Despite his great record, the governor should consider stepping down to put “people before politics.”
Harmon: Be thankful for fracking
U.S. production of oil and natural gas is helping consumers and the environment.
Column: Reducing Maine’s carbon footprint
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, is the most cost-effective way to reach the region’s environmental goals.
George Smith: Background check initiative complicated, unreasonable
The proposal on the November ballot would raise too many problems for law-abiding Mainers.
Dr. Christopher Pezzullo: How Maine is confronting infant mortality
Nationally, nearly six out of every 1,000 babies will die before age 1, and Maine’s rate is even slightly higher.