Often-overlooked housing programs and models can help working poor Maine families build the equity they need to weather financial storms.
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Commentary: Vaccine politics will soon replace election politics
The coming fights over cost and access to COVID treatments are guaranteed to displease most Americans.
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Maine Voices: Recent Portland Adult Ed graduate a role model as we hurry up and wait
Neither snow nor distance nor wheelchair snafus disrupted the gratitude and grace of his 10-year quest for a diploma.
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Commentary: Time to prepare for an even more deadly pandemic
As lethal as this coronavirus has been, a novel influenza – for example – could be worse.
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Commentary: Legal fights, frustration and tears for blind voters
The technology exists for people with visual disabilities to vote electronically from home, but the ability to do so differs from one state to the next. Maine just started offering the option.
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Maine Voices: Law enforcement vital in the fight against opioid overdose
Medicine-assisted treatment and harm reduction are not enough to stop the rising death toll in Maine.
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Jim Fossel: Without third parties, presidential debates will always fail the voters
The events are designed to protect major-party candidates from challenges by hopefuls on their own ideological flanks.
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The Maine Millennial: Whatever happens Tuesday, I’m ready for it
The Victoria of four years ago didn’t think she could handle a post-Nov. 8, 2016, world. But that was then.
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Maine Observer: COVID brings on cabin fever
As we shelter in place, life’s annoyances get even more annoying.
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Bill Nemitz: It’s almost here – a banner day for the USA
As it has throughout our history, the political pendulum is moving as we vote.