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Op-eds
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Maine has nothing to fear by welcoming data centers | Jim Fossel
We need development that adds value to our state and fits with our values. A moratorium is the wrong move.
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Will ranked choice voting be expanded in Maine? | Opinion
The question is before the courts. The system is not without its deficiencies.
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Let’s never take Maine’s night skies for granted | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
Light pollution is a problem that fortunately has not yet interfered with one of the things that makes living here special.
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For patients throughout Maine, price cap legislation is just what the doctor ordered | Opinion
Families should not be forced to make difficult — even impossible — decisions about whether to buy food and fuel or health insurance.
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Maine’s young people are ready to talk politics. Are you? | Opinion
Please trust us to be the capable, critical and motivated citizens we are.
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Portland restaurants, cool it on the ‘concepts’ | Opinion
Won’t somebody think of the locals?
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Troy Jackson is committed to rejecting dark money | Opinion
We must elect those candidates who show by their actions that they will only be anointed by and beholden to the people.
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From Maine to El Paso: The harrowing pipeline of those detained by ICE | Opinion
Although we live more than 2,000 miles away from each other, both of our communities have been resisting the Trump administration’s enforcement regime.
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Bottle bill proposal will devastate Maine’s beverage businesses | Opinion
While we support the program, it must be financially sustainable. Shifting costs onto local businesses already dealing with thin margins and rising costs in an unsettled economic environment is not the answer.