The bipartisan efforts led by Sen. Susan Collins are far more than just a response to 2020.
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Commentary: Why none of us can win against kipple
You may think you don’t know what kipple is. Trust me, you know all about kipple.
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Commentary: Monkeypox is not the next COVID. But it’s spreading from the same failures.
Why do we in the West pay attention only when a disease outbreak directly threatens us?
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Commentary: It’s time to raise the federal minimum wage
The bottom line? As prices and profits soar, $7.25 just isn’t what it used to be.
Posted inElection 2022, Op-eds, Opinion
Commentary: November’s election gives Maine a chance to build on recent progress
Social and economic reforms spurred by the pandemic are proof that we are capable of meaningful change. Let’s keep going.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bill Russell was ‘an arrogant Negro’ to the end
To speak up in the 1960s was dangerous – to livelihood and, conceivably, to life. Russell did it anyway. And kept doing it.
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Maine Voices: Here and everywhere, cashiers should be allowed to take a seat
American supermarket and retail workers deserve better than the standard – standing – American check stand.
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Commentary: At last, a simple strategy for COVID booster shots
The September rollout of shots tailored to BA.4 and BA.5 could be the beginning of putting the COVID vaccine on an annual schedule.
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Maine Voices: What Mainers can do to strengthen democracy
As the dust from the first round of Jan. 6 hearings settles, let’s think about what needs to happen next.
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Commentary: There’s a new centrist political party. It’s going nowhere.
In its attempts to appeal to both Democrats and Republicans, the new party, Forward, succeeds only in being vague.