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PublishedApril 25, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Legislature leaves behind a tangled trail
The session ended with confusion and a load of legislation not acted on.
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PublishedApril 18, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Gov. Brennan was like no other Maine politician, before or since
Son of a union longshoreman, Brennan never strayed far from his birthplace, dying just a few blocks from the Kellogg Street tenement where he grew up, the columnist writes.
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Finding something universal, unifying in the moment of the eclipse
In Piscataquis and Somerset counties, the columnist saw people uniting under a common purpose.
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PublishedApril 4, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Maine’s voter referendums in need of an overhaul
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PublishedMarch 21, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Investing against the tide of global warming
A map shows that Maine is on fire. What are we going to do about it?
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PublishedMarch 14, 2024
Douglas Rooks: What did we learn from the COVID pandemic?
Four years after life as we know it was changed by a virus, we still haven't come to terms with how we responded.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2024
Douglas Rooks: As Supreme Court dithers, storm clouds gather
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Rep. Golden confronts Gov. Mills on guns
The Lewiston shooting was a wake-up call that Maine policymakers cannot afford to ignore.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
Douglas Rooks: With offshore wind port, something big is finally happening
It's about time for the state to seriously begin cutting fossil fuel use from our electric grid.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2024
Douglas Rooks: Age not always a political disability
When considering candidates' fitness for office, voters often have an age-old question to answer.
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