A call by Reps. Pingree, Golden and 200 of their colleagues to investigate nurse staffing agencies could have unintended consequences.
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Maine Voices: Inequities in mental health treatment are health care’s greatest injustice
Laws like the one that keeps Medicaid from covering inpatient behavioral care are not only discriminatory but also can have dire consequences for Maine families.
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Maine Voices: Let’s invest in bipartisan bill to tackle plastic waste
Both environmentalists and Big Business support L.D. 1467, which would reduce the amount of virgin plastic in our state’s beverage bottles.
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Maine Voices: Join the 2022 Trek Across Maine – and support healthy lungs
Come take a ride, starting in Brunswick and spanning the entire state, and help us achieve this year’s goal of raising $1 million.
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Maine Voices: Pay Maine community college instructors fairly before granting free tuition
The economic feasibility of a social good cannot rely on the continued perpetuation of a socioeconomic injustice.
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Maine Voices: Save people like my friend Madison – pass L.D. 1862
Expand Maine’s Good Samaritan law, so others will not hesitate to call 911 when their friends are in crisis.
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Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery
Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.
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Maine Voices: Don’t support theaters that haven’t lived up to diversity pledges
Artistic organizations are beholden to the desires of their audiences when it comes to programming.
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Maine Voices: A message to extremists – grow up
The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, with their toy guns and mantras, are living out a boyhood fantasy that was never grounded in reality.
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Maine Observer: A call to a neighbor might go a long way
When winter storms hit, Mainers used to look out for each other – one landline check-in at a time.