Any package should include enhanced broadband access and renewable energy, address climate change and harness willing private-sector resources.
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Maine Voices: Federal relief funds should target Mainers hit hardest by the pandemic
Our health and economic well-being are bound together, and we can all become weaker when some people are left behind.
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Commentary: For heaven’s sake, get the COVID-19 vaccination
Conservative inoculation opponents frame the issue as a matter of rights when in fact it’s a matter of everyday morality.
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Our View: Restaurants and bars are still working their way back
When Mainers and visitors go out to eat this summer, they should not forget to bring along some patience.
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Maine Voices: Water control as political tool is playing out across the world
The struggles of Palestinians and the people of Maine for water rights and environmental justice are linked.
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The View From Here: Avoiding the nostalgia trap
Seeing old friends can be a good reminder that the future has promise and the past was not always so great.
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Our View: ‘Ban’ won’t end Maine’s ocean wind project
The moratorium signed last week resolves issues that will allow the industry to keep moving forward.
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan Maine budget deal won’t help LePage
Republicans in the Legislature showed that they could work with Democratic lawmakers and the Mills administration to govern through compromise.
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Insight: The tale of Bar Harbor’s ‘Treasure Ship’
At the outbreak of the First World War, a German ship carrying silver and gold bullion tried to find safe harbor in Maine. The arrival kicked off a legal battle for the history books.
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Maine Voices: Don’t let pandemic year drag our high schoolers down
A new C* grade for full-year online or hybrid classes would allow Maine students who struggled during 2020-2021 to graduate on time.