The rules should be expanded to apply to the internet-based ‘nonbanks’ that are underwriting two-thirds of home loans.
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Maine Voices: There’s no room for bad-faith negotiating on budget, infrastructure bills
Efforts by Maine Rep. Jared Golden and his fellow centrists to stymie a social policy spending plan bring up memories of my deadbeat dad.
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Maine Voices: Turn on the light of election liberty now
The media paint states as red, blue or purple at a time when our states need election systems that are red, white and blue.
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Commentary: We can’t keep treating Haiti’s cycle of trauma with Band-Aid solutions
The poverty, corruption and instability there can be alleviated only if stakeholders in the recovery effort remain involved after the dead are buried.
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Mayor Casavant: Public-private partnerships find housing solutions for Biddeford’s working families
Across Maine, citizens, elected officials, municipal staff and business professionals will originate ideas that make real headway toward easing this historic housing crunch.
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Maine Voices: Meeting our moral obligation to Afghans in peril will take swift, decisive action
Immediate evacuation is essential to avoiding the kinds of atrocities we’ve seen elsewhere when leadership failed.
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Maine Voices: Praising a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure
Senators from both parties worked with the Biden administration to pass this historic bill.
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Maine Voices: Lawmakers set course for future progress
Bills that would have made a difference in health care, the environment and corporate greed will not become law in Maine.
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan infrastructure bill good for democracy
You don’t need to be a fan of big spending to be happy with the $1 trillion legislation that the U.S. Senate just passed.
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The Maine Millennial: Republicans should stop whining about plastic-bag ban
Seeing the land and water in Maine littered with trash is a bigger hardship than remembering to bring a reusable carrier to the grocery store.