Now drugmaker Eli Lilly is pushing forward with another unproven treatment on the basis of limited evidence.
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Maine Voices: It’s time to rethink how we prevent child abuse, neglect
The state must prioritize prevention and early intervention services to stabilize struggling Maine families before they are in crisis.
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Commentary: Rural Maine cooperative holds up well when compared to CMP
A commentary fails to acknowledge that Eastern Maine Electric’s rates are very close to CMP’s, though the investor-owned utility’s territory is much cheaper to serve.
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Commentary: Simple microeconomics shows the fallacy of most voter fraud
The potential marginal benefit of casting one additional vote is not worth the risk of prison and a hefty fine for committing a crime.
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Leonard Pitts: No mystery why conservatives find education dangerous
The latest sign of the fear of thought? A new Florida law requiring surveys of public university faculty and students about their political views.
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Commentary: Big Tech crackdown could have unintended victims
U.S. efforts to rein in Facebook and Twitter are a gift to authoritarian governments around the world.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s senators must lead on gun-violence prevention
The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
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Commentary: Fund public transit, not more roads
We should stop subsidizing sprawl and spend those savings on our resource-starved mass transit systems.
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Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.
More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
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Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform
Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.