Onerous state requirements are making full-time public K-12 education impossible and placing a heavy burden on our kids.
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Maine Voices: To save lives in Maine, gun safety advocates have to show up in Augusta
The Show Up Network (SUN) for Gun Safety is focused solely on turning Mainers out on this issue so that our voice will be heard.
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Maine Voices: Lowering voting age to 16 will give more stakeholders a say in our democracy
Today’s young people are expected to fix past generations’ mistakes, yet we don’t have the basic right to cast a ballot. L.D. 706 would change that.
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Maine Voices: Maine has history of withholding treatment from inmates. COVID is no exception
As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’
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Maine Voices: I’m a longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center, and I don’t support a union
Why would we pay dues that would give us benefits we already have and make the patient a secondary consideration?
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Maine Voices: In my last year of teaching, I ‘lost’ a student
The children most at risk before COVID are affected even more now. If you know of a child who is not engaged in school, please speak up.
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Maine Voices: Ocean preserve needs protection
The nation’s only undewater national monument lies 130 miles off the coast of Maine, and it’s under threat.
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Maine Voices: Prioritize essential food workers for the coronavirus vaccine
Maine’s grocery employees have not had the luxury of avoiding direct human interaction, even during the pandemic.
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Maine Voices: Hospitals deliver better care when nurses unionize
Nurses put patients first, and should have more say in hospital policies than they get without a union.
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Maine Voices: National shortage of blood donations? As one upstanding citizen, it’s not my problem.
The FDA bans gay male blood donors as a class, while others who engage in significantly higher-risk activity are still permitted to donate blood.