With the GOP poised to increase its Senate majority around the time of the vote, Kavanaugh’s rejection would have paved the way for a nominee more hostile to the right to choose.
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Maine Voices: Maine courts need a science and technology adviser
The outcome of a recent rockweed-harvesting case underscores the need to provide judges with unique expertise.
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Our View: Still paying the bills for LePage’s tough talk
The former governor’s hard-line stance on the Riverview Psychiatric Center left the state with an unpaid bill.
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Reps. Fay and Ingwersen: For Maine to beat forever chemicals, we need federal and state solutions
It’s heartening that Maine will be phasing out the use of toxic PFAS in food packaging, but that’s just a first step.
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Jay Ambrose: Could a President Pence save the Republicans?
In 2008, Esquire magazine named him one of the 10 best members of Congress, a forever principled conservative, never a party hack. And a question is whether he might be among the country’s top presidents, this smooth-talking, gently paced Mike Pence. It’s possible, at the least, that he could in fact become president, given the […]
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View from Away: Republicans aren’t coming to the rescue, America
On Sunday evening, the president of the United States told the world that he thought a member of Congress should be tried for treason. It was a dangerous boundary shattered by a desperate president. Republicans were silent. Less than three hours later, Trump unleashed another gust of tweets quoting a longtime supporter who warned what […]
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Our View: Moosehead developers yield to market forces
Ten years after Plum Creek Timber won an expensive rezoning battle, the real estate market had the final word.
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Commentary: Why is vaping the only youth health issue in the crosshairs?
Amid growing reports linking serious lung illnesses to vaping, California health officials issued a pointed warning Tuesday: Stop vaping immediately. Almost two weeks earlier, the Trump administration announced plans to remove all flavored electronic cigarettes — favored by youth — from the market. At least 530 cases of vaping-associated respiratory illnesses have been reported. Nine […]
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Our View: Maine leads on response to climate change
A commitment to innovation creates an opportunity for the state to have an outsize impact on a global problem.
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Maine Compass: Our state should lead the way on opening up primaries to all voters
The current system gives presidential nomination power to the parties and takes it away from the people.