The Democratic congresswoman plans to visit Dilley Immigration Processing Center to see Olivia Andre, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Maine, who has been in federal detention since November.
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Bond to support farm and forestry funding will not be on November ballot
Despite efforts in the final days of the session, the bill to bring the bond before voters failed to pass.
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Posted inLetters
Why are we still having primaries? | Letter
I’m not a political strategist, and I am sure more informed people have their reasons — be it voter engagement or allocation of party resources — for the continued existence of primaries. But I wonder, with the exception of the race for governor, whether we can limit their implications. With the inception of ranked choice […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
When even doctors can’t find doctors, something needs to change | Opinion
If our health care system is failing to provide for the providers, you can imagine what that means for the rest of us.
Posted inLetters
Trouble with petition signatures? Bring on the PICTURE Act. | Letter
It’s time we took serious action to root out invalidity, wouldn’t you agree?
Posted inLetters
Cancelling clean energy projects makes no sense | Letter
Electric heat pumps cut conventional fossil-dependent heating costs in half. Offshore wind — increasingly popular from Denmark to Japan — could cut these costs further, by delivering 24/7, uninterrupted electric power generation, robust job creation, zero operating emissions, drastic pollution reduction and high energy reliability, even during winter storms. All things considered, offshore wind is the […]
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Your glory days are over, Paul LePage | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
The former governor should be happily retired on a beach somewhere. Unfortunately, he’s got other ideas.
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Reorganize SNAP to restore funding for foreign assistance | Letter
The United States Agency of International Development (USAID) helped prevent roughly 1 million child deaths per year. Other U.S. foreign assistance programs have also saved many lives, and under President Obama, the State Department used diplomacy with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union to help negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear […]
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Keep Maine beautiful by protecting, investing in our public lands | Opinion
Passing the America the Beautiful Act will help future generations to experience our state as we know it today.