With incoming infrastructure funding, Maine should prioritize dam removals over dam repairs and technical fishways.
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Maine Voices: Older Mainers deserve relief from high prescription drug costs
Congress has the power to get to the very heart of the problem – out-of-control drug prices – and right this wrong.
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Commentary: Lead in water harms red states, too
Some 10 million lead pipes carry – and potentially contaminate – U.S. drinking water. By putting partisan politics aside, members of Congress could solve this.
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Our View: Anthem not telling the whole story in Maine price dispute
A $136 bag of saline is a sign of a bad system, not price gouging by MaineHealth.
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Maine Voices: Why the U.S. must not intervene in Ukraine
As Vladimir Putin is backed snarling into a corner, we are now only a few bad decisions away from nuclear annihilation.
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Our View: Maine lawmakers missed chance to fix indigent legal aid
While the state clings to its unique criminal defense setup, people are being denied their constitutional rights.
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Our View: Federal judge shows agenda in mask mandate case
In matters of public health, the opinion of an activist jurist with a dictionary shouldn’t carry more weight than a team of scientific experts.
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Our View: Maine’s local governments need not rush to spend federal COVID aid
The coronavirus pandemic will have long-term effects, and the response should also have a long horizon.
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Maine Voices: Time is now for utility accountability, modernized energy grid
An amended version of L.D. 1959 sends a clear message to Maine’s power companies: Improve your performance, get fined or be replaced.
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Maine Voices: Lewiston’s proposed shelter moratorium is unacceptable
Lewiston’s mayor calls opposition to efforts to help unhoused people ‘a waste of time.’