The city used a meeting between officials and community members ‘to provide legitimacy for their actions against the public for expressing their First Amendment rights.’
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Maine Voices: Trump rights a wrong by reopening marine monument to fishing
Though Maine vessels don’t routinely fish Seamounts, the process that created the monument raised important issues.
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Maine Voices: Individual rights do not trump state public health protections
The president’s Maine visit shows how his ‘open up’ rhetoric encourages people to flout pandemic control regulations.
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Auburn mayor: Gideon, Mills administration dragging their feet on delivering COVID aid
Contrary to the Maine House speaker’s recent column, Sen. Collins is working to provide more funding and more flexibility.
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Maine Voices: We need leadership on climate change
Changing behavior on the local level won’t be enough to do what needs to be done.
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Maine Voices: In Maine’s bicentennial year, let’s cut through fog of racism
Criminal justice reform initiatives and our most important institutions can and must include Native people and people of color.
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The View From Here: Something’s happening here
The street protests in Portland last week could signal a potent force for change – if the movement can stay organized.
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Jim Fossel: Legislature’s input needed in state of emergency
Just like Congress, the Maine Legislature has ceded too much power to to the executive branch and needs to take it back.
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Bill Nemitz: Changing the world, one small corner at a time
As she graduates from Bangor High School, Nigerian-born Amara Ifeji leaves behind a legacy of scientific achievement and social change.
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The Maine Millennial: Under the shelter of white privilege
You don’t have to be prejudiced to benefit from a system of white supremacy, whether you recognize it or not.