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.
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Insight: With sports gambling legal and ubiquitous, all bets are off
Bet on corruption and other social problems as casinos and team owners join forces to extract more money from fans.
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Maine Voices: All Mainers face unfairly inflating property tax burdens
In light of unforeseen and ongoing change, it is long overdue for Augusta to seek to reform this system.