Mainers know the system is imperfect, subject to human error and the wrong incentives. Digitization won’t help.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Chinese threat has to be countered
Past efforts at partnership and cooperation are now hard to fathom.
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Our View: The time for a serious road safety intervention is now
The carnage on Maine roads last year should never be repeated. Solutions are available.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: What’s your 2022 word of the year?
If you’re not happy with where you’re landing, then maybe it’s not too soon to start thinking about the word of 2023.
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Commentary: Electoral Count Reform Act takes a 19th-century law into the 21st century
It took the violent breach of the Capitol to shine a spotlight on the pressing need for reform.
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Jim Fossel: Did anti-marijuana Republicans really have to play it SAFE?
Hesitance doomed the passage of a bill that would have helped small businesses across America.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Susana Hancock: If the world’s leading climate conference cannot take climate seriously, who can?
Despite our international promise to halve emissions by 2030, 2022 marks another year in which record pollution has been pumped into our air.
Posted inOpinion
The Maine Millennial: My best worst Christmas ever
In 2017, without Dad, the Hugo-Vidal family wasn’t going to do a tree or blueberry muffins, either.
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Commentary: What gives ‘Charlotte’s Web’ such formidable staying power?
Seventy years after its publication, E.B. White’s little book of wisdom continues to enthrall readers – children and adults alike.
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Maine Voices: Santa Claus, our unlikely savior
Imagine the leg up that a peek behind the curtain gives to a developing brain trying to understand the world.