The state must prioritize prevention and early intervention services to stabilize struggling Maine families before they are in crisis.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s senators must lead on gun-violence prevention
The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
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Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.
More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
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Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform
Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
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Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it
If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
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Maine Voices: The Tulsa Race Massacre is America’s own Tiananmen Square
We too have buried both bodies and the truth. Only when we admit our past can we stand with the victims of other nations.
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Maine Voices: Ambivalence persists about roles, rights of Mainers with disabilities
Two recent stories show we’re undermining our pledges of inclusion by perpetuating a history rife with prejudice and bias.
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Maine Voices: Let voters decide public power question
Investor-owned utilities have proven that they can sow doubt, but they haven’t shown they can deliver affordable and reliable power.
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Maine Voices: Panic about critical race theory undercuts students’ search for truth
Young people aren’t fooled by attempts to treat stories from U.S. history and American literature like shameful family secrets to be covered up, a Maine teacher says.
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Maine Voices: Pandemic will have lasting effects on our children, teens
All adults have an opportunity to play a role in the well-being of our youth, especially as they return to a semblance of their pre-COVID lives.