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Maine Voices: Your vote – use it now or prepare yourself to lose it

by Peter Fromuth October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

Flaws in our Constitution and laws could enable the loser of the 2016 popular vote to overrule democracy if he’s not decisively trounced Nov. 3.

by Finn Veerkamp October 14, 2020October 14, 2020

Turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds has been on the rise, but we still trail other groups. Let’s change that.

by Doreen Fournier October 10, 2020October 12, 2020

Treat this substance like any other age-restricted product by safely storing it and modeling healthy behaviors.

by Gordon L. Weil October 5, 2020October 2, 2020

Maine should get in on the planning early as the four Atlantic provinces and Quebec weigh a grand proposal for clean energy.

by Patrisha McLean October 5, 2020October 7, 2020

Survivors are threatened by state COVID policies that aim to reduce jail overcrowding.

by Ted O'Meara October 4, 2020October 5, 2020

A former Maine Republican chairman says the party he once led has abandoned its principles and deserves to lose the election.

by Steven Edmondson October 3, 2020October 5, 2020

‘It’s all true,’ the young woman, no longer afraid to speak up, told her mother after a year of assaults, threats and insults.

by Anya Fetcher September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

As the waters in the Gulf of Maine are warming rapidly, the Trump administration’s policies are making it worse.

by Jim Bailinson September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

We need to encourage bipartisanship by restoring the 60-vote threshold for advancing nominations to the high court.

by Linda Durst, M.D. September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

In a time of crisis, we must do a better job accepting mental illness as a disease that is no different from diabetes or a broken limb.