Lawmakers in D.C. are finally making it a priority to fund medical examiners and coroners.
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OUR OPINION: Thumbs up, thumbs down
Lobster marketing, Supreme Court reaction and tourist season caught our attention this week.
Declaration of Independence
Most of us know how it starts: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another … “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable […]
OUR OPINION: Arsenic rules succumb to bad politics
Idaho Republican leads effort to derail EPA’s new, stricter standards on carcinogen.
OUR OPINION: Decision makes women’s health an election issue
Voters can no longer take for granted access to birth control, family planning services and safe, legal abortions.
OUR OPINION: Subsidies support food that is likely making U.S. sick
Billions of dollars in direct aid yield tens of billions in health care costs.
OUR OPINION: Give USM critics a role in president search
Let #USMFuture contribute to process from the inside.
OUR OPINION: Welfare should not be a dirty word in Maine
It’s no insult to say that we are committed to taking care of each other in times of need.
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Cellphone searches, missing emails at the IRS, follow-through in Hallowell caught our attention this week.
OUR OPINION: Alternatives exist for poor Mainers stuck in debt trap
Mainers too often take on high-interest credit unnecessarily.