As we continue to make Earth more hospitable to pests and less hospitable to humans, Mainers age 40 and under are going to pay the highest price.
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Maine Voices: It’s time to rethink how we prevent child abuse, neglect
The state must prioritize prevention and early intervention services to stabilize struggling Maine families before they are in crisis.
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Commentary: Rural Maine cooperative holds up well when compared to CMP
A commentary fails to acknowledge that Eastern Maine Electric’s rates are very close to CMP’s, though the investor-owned utility’s territory is much cheaper to serve.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s senators must lead on gun-violence prevention
The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
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Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.
More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
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Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform
Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
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Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it
If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
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Jim Fossel: Senators, not Senate rules, make laws
Liberals complain about the filibuster, but repealing it would likely have little impact on the development of policy.
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The Maine Millennial: Making something amazing out of what’s old, broken
What do my old birth control implant and my new celebration-of-sobriety tattoo have in common? Read on and I’ll tell you.
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The View From Here: Making sense of the ‘Take this job and shove it’ economy
Employers are trying to fill openings, but employees are quitting at record rates.