It’s easy to view bees and mosquitoes as pests. But ahead of Wild Blueberry Weekend, it’s worth learning about the powerful role they can play in our ecosystems.
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Maine Voices: Let’s turn Androscoggin courthouse into fine arts museum
The move can have wide-ranging positive effects on the community, from cultural enrichment and education to economic growth and historic preservation.
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Commentary: Regulators must examine wind power’s potential damage to fisheries
Foreign green energy companies are on the verge of industrializing our ocean with thousands of wind turbines, sealing fisheries and harming lobster stocks.
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Maine Voices: Are heat pump consumers getting the benefit of federal, state incentive programs?
While I don’t begrudge installers getting a share of the opportunity created by both strong demand and government support of heat pumping technology, rebates are for consumers.
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Maine Voices: How the Farm Bill can help solve climate change
Farming of all sorts contributes to and suffers from climate change, but there is a lot that we can do to reverse that.
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The Maine Millennial: ‘Hot Labor Summer’ continues its valiant move forward
The major worker actions going on across the U.S. shine light on the fact that some workers – farmworkers, actors, even teachers – are considered less deserving of union protections.
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Hilary Koch: I am Batman
Knowledge is power. And this week I was schooled … I was about to pull into my garage, but my eldest son gestured to me to stay in the driveway. He was holding our small dog. He climbed into my car and started to relay the excitement. He didn’t get far. My husband emerged from […]
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Jim Fossel: Bipartisan 2024 White House ticket? Forget it.
It’s true that voters aren’t enthusiastic about a Biden-Trump rematch, but there’s little evidence that they want No Labels’ vague alternative.
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Commentary: Medical debt is making Americans angry. Doctors and hospitals ignore this at their peril.
For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to […]
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Our View: Work authorization would help migrants, and the rest of us
The effort got a big boost last week with support from the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.