Immediate evacuation is essential to avoiding the kinds of atrocities we’ve seen elsewhere when leadership failed.
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Maine Voices: Praising a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure
Senators from both parties worked with the Biden administration to pass this historic bill.
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Maine Voices: Lawmakers set course for future progress
Bills that would have made a difference in health care, the environment and corporate greed will not become law in Maine.
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan infrastructure bill good for democracy
You don’t need to be a fan of big spending to be happy with the $1 trillion legislation that the U.S. Senate just passed.
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The Maine Millennial: Republicans should stop whining about plastic-bag ban
Seeing the land and water in Maine littered with trash is a bigger hardship than remembering to bring a reusable carrier to the grocery store.
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Another View: Don’t forget biofuels in Maine climate fight
Planners are not giving enough attention to lower-carbon alternatives that are available today.
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Insight: With sports gambling legal and ubiquitous, all bets are off
Bet on corruption and other social problems as casinos and team owners join forces to extract more money from fans.
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Maine Voices: All Mainers face unfairly inflating property tax burdens
In light of unforeseen and ongoing change, it is long overdue for Augusta to seek to reform this system.
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The View From Here: How are we going to beat the heat?
A devastating U.N. report raises the stakes on the politics of climate change.
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Our View: Maine’s housing shortage is not a local issue
A new commission will look into the ways that local control of land-use policy limits the ability of working people to find affordable homes.