Other states are following our example. Let’s keep it that way.
Op-eds
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Commentary: How could a 21-year-old leak national security data without the Pentagon knowing?
In spite of the high-profile leaks that have occurred over the last decade, most people still don’t realize how easy it is for something like this to occur.
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Clarence Page: GOP, beware. Abortion politics are firing up both sides
Let’s face it. Anti-abortion politics is about power, grievance and getting the upper hand on the other side.
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Commentary: Wall Street should tell Kevin McCarthy to extend debt limit
Democrats aren’t going to agree to McCarthy’s harsh demands. Yet the House speaker seems determined to put his energy into a probably doomed attempt to unify his dysfunctional party.
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Commentary: Maine is not meeting its obligation to children like my son
Without a critical change to the payment structure for special-purpose preschools, these schools cannot survive.
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Commentary: Why Clarence Thomas’s explanations fail the laugh test
It was once hard for me to believe that Thomas could be as much of a puppet of the most reactionary forces in American society as he seemed. No longer.
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Commentary: Republicans won’t win back the youth vote with a culture war
Many conservative leaders see younger generations’ relative liberalism as the result of the pernicious influence of left-aligned public institutions and industries. It’s not that simple.
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Commentary: The gun debate isn’t hopeless. Just look at Tennessee
The state has managed a small start on the road to rational gun laws. It’s a start that almost certainly is a product of youthful political activism.
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Commentary: Saving Maine’s year-round communities demands a joint effort
In Stonington, as in many towns across the state, the need for housing requires us to slow, stop and reverse the loss of control of properties to those who neither vote nor reside here.
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Commentary: Farmworkers deserve same rights as other workers
Their back-breaking labor puts food on our tables and still they are treated like second-class citizens. Two bills before the state Legislature aim to change that.