Local small business owners relieved Portland’s $15 minimum was defeated.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Skowhegan ‘Indian Pride’ website continues to denigrate Native Americans
Recent use of an alcohol reference is particularly harmful, considering how white people used it to control the native peoples.
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Get ready for government by referendum
Gridlock at the State House makes referendums seem attractive, but initiatives are best used only when the Legislature rejects legislation that would address demonstrated public priorities.
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Pingree: We can’t afford to be blindsided by ocean acidification
A new measure would identify communities at risk if ocean changes were to affect the lobster fishery.
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Patriotic pageantry staged at sporting events has lost meaning
Instead of overdone homecomings, what would happen if Jumbotron showed a mother being notified that her only child had been killed in Afghanistan?
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Giraffe Award winner wants Maine to be first state to eradicate childhood hunger
Maine Children’s Alliance honors John Woods for willingness to ‘stick his neck out’ for children.
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Fighting against our heroin crisis
Multi-pronged strategies are needed to keep people off heroin, and to treat them after they’re addicted.
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How a Somali community could help save Maine’s economy
Attracting new residents to the state isn’t just a godsend but an economic imperative.
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High-tech corporations take the low road to cheaper labor
Sen. King be advised: Betraying the American STEM worker is not ‘growing the economy.’
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Religious extremism, violence threaten visions of peace for major faiths
Well-known leaders of Catholic, Jewish and Muslim religions to participate in discussion about the future of our world.