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Healthy Lakes, Healthy Communities: We all have a seat at the ‘kitchen table’
Everybody has what it takes to contribute to our communities.
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Opinion: We must embrace humility, be willing to be wrong
Too much certainty and our stances become rigid and brittle. Too much doubt and they waver with every breeze.
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Opinion: A maxed-out criminal legal system is failing Mainers
Maine’s courts are starting to respond to the staggering lack of attorneys by releasing those who are awaiting trial without appointed counsel.
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Douglas Rooks: Maine senators bring home the bacon, and then some
Earmarks provide encouragement for voters to believe someone is actually listening to them in Washington, the columnist writes.
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Maine Compass: A voice from Kennebec County’s past speaks to our social divides
More than 100 years ago, Robert Hallowell Gardiner III taught lessons that remain important today.
Posted inElection 2024, Op-Eds, Opinion, Politics
Douglas Rooks: Maine primary’s partisan fault lines grow wider
Striking polarization of the electorate makes it even less likely outside-the-numbers candidates can prevail, the columnist writes.
Posted inElection 2024, Op-Eds, Opinion, Politics
Commentary: Election officials are heroes. Support them by becoming poll workers
Elections are the primary mechanism for Americans to communicate their ideas, priorities and values. As someone who closely studies civic engagement and elections, I’ve seen firsthand the crucial work that election administrators and poll workers do to make it possible for people to have a say in our system of self-governance. They are the faces […]
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Jim Fossel: Trump was overzealously pursued
If an incumbent Democratic congressman had paid off his mistress with campaign funds, there would be no trial.
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Community Compass: Hallowell must remove PFAS from its public water supply
Word to the wise to Hallowell residents and visitors of Hallowell’s burgeoning restaurant and café scene: Don’t drink the water here. Why? Hallowell’s public drinking water is contaminated with more than three times the federal safe level of toxic chemicals for human consumption. These toxins, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), are a group […]