In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, the Alfond Youth and Community Center unveiled a monument dedicated to Louis Sockalexis, the first Indigenous person to play Major League Baseball.
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Native Mainers plan to reflect, educate on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Maine is one of 14 states and the District of Columbia that now observe Native American or Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of, or in addition to, Columbus Day.
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Maine Voices: Want a healthy planet? Check your rivers
Mainers should be proud of their leadership in river restoration. Still, there’s a lot more work to do.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Racist NFL team name finally going away
We should all wonder what took so long.
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Maine Voices: Black Lives Matter is the latest flower of the Black Radical Tradition
Despite what a recent columnist suggests, BLM does not vindicate liberalism – it exposes and upends liberalism.
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Maine Voices: ‘Whitewashing’ history gives young people distorted view of America
Teaching our nation’s true story will encourage clearer thinking, not treachery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explains.
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Truth and Reconciliation commissioners: Land claims act overhaul will help deliver justice to tribes in Maine
L.D. 2094 provides an opportunity to face the harms that the state has done to Natives and to work to restore their lost sovereignty.
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Friends of Baxter State Park: Cherished park not part of power line debate
Hydro-Quebec’s use of Baxter State Park imagery in an ad supporting a transmission line is deceptive and manipulative.
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Jim Fossel: Tribal gaming is no fix for Maine’s gambling problems
The state should have a well-regulated competition among gaming companies, not a protected monopoly for the few.
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Rep. Moonen: Inclusivity has been a key value in Maine policymaking in 2019
Bills passed this year have addressed issues such as equal pay, automatic voter registration, state-tribal ties, food insecurity and ending conversion therapy.