Our country’s plan to formally exit the Paris accord Nov. 4 is discouraging, but there’s reason to hope.
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Maine Voices: Surge in immigrant detention can be stopped at the ballot box
If the inhumanity of the Trump administration’s policy toward undocumented immigrants doesn’t sway voters, maybe the cost to taxpayers will.
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Maine Voices: Democratic Party heading in the wrong direction on immigration
The party’s platform is centered on a selective application of law enforcement that looks a lot like ‘openish’ borders.
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Maine Voices: Women’s health at risk with new Supreme Court justice
Voters should remember at the polls the unjust process that pushed Amy Coney Barrett to a Senate vote.
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Maine Voices: Let’s stay united as Mainers amid our religious, political differences
We can commit to actively protecting the right to vote by pledging to ‘defend democracy faithfully.’
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Maine Voices: We’ve been through bitter election years – and we’ve survived
Thomas Jefferson’s 1800 challenge to incumbent John Adams had everything we’re dealing with now, only worse.
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Maine Voices: I stutter, but it doesn’t limit who I am or what I can do
Joe Biden’s stutter has brought the condition into the open. What helps people overcome it? For a Maine legislator, music was the key.
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Maine Voices: It’s up to community to make young people feel that they matter
The Maine Resilience Building Network is starting a conversation that will affect our state’s economic and public health.
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Maine Voices: Hospitals and nursing homes need aid from the state
Other states have released federal funds to health care providers, but so far Maine has not.
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Maine Voices: Fire-free forests aren’t possible, but we can’t abandon prevention
Containment efforts have paid off in Maine – in a record-breaking wildfire year here, the average acreage per fire is very low.