A third of our workforce would benefit from a base-pay hike – and so would the businesses where these workers would spend money.
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Maine Voices: Skowhegan mascot debate a teaching moment for our youth
It’s our chance to show our children that nobody should be treated as less than human.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s rural communities have always been at the edge of the global economy
The global economy left working people in this state negotiating the social wreckage that corporations often left behind.
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Maine Voices: Legislature should condemn LePage’s legacy of racist diatribes
Gov. Janet Mills has vowed to chart a more inclusive path, but lawmakers must act as well to promote Maine as a dignified and accepting place.
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Maine Voices: I’m the so-called rogue professor. USM was my rogue adjudicator
I took responsibility for not following procedures in starting a pop-up political course, then university officials succumbed to pressure, accused me of partisanship and barred me from teaching.
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Maine Voices: It’s time to improve identity documents for trans Mainers
Maybe we should get rid of gender labels on government-issued IDs altogether.
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Maine Voices: A call for calm in the hostilities over Brett Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins undertook substantive research before deciding to vote for Kavanaugh, says a member of the working group that helped her review his record.
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Maine Voices: Governor candidates lack strategies for reducing road fatalities
None seem to be moved by Maine’s dismal record on highway safety, especially when compared with the U.K.
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Maine Voices: Church of Safe Injection treats drug users as Jesus would have done
He would have offered them sterile syringes, naloxone and nonjudgmental support.
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Maine Voices: Statewide project aims to explode myths, tell rich stories of immigration
At a time when migration is seen as a threat, 70 community partners hope to raise public awareness in Maine about those ‘from away’ who share a love of America.