Ignore all the negative hoopla about Platner and focus on reality. I can’t afford six more years of the current U.S. Senate — and I know I’m not alone.
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Nuclear energy in New England, once unthinkable, now indispensable | Opinion
The region’s growing demand for electricity combined with the dramatic improvement in nuclear technology makes it an idea worth exploring.
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Rick Bennett could defeat Bobby Charles. He could also make Charles governor. | Steve Collins
A three-way gubernatorial race allows one candidate to torpedo another. That makes me nervous for Maine.
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Do Trump and Susan Collins share Frances Perkins’ vision of society? | Opinion
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire made it clear that the first female Cabinet member believed we owe each other some minimum care. Where is that standard today?
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Housing will require public, private and community partnership in Maine | Opinion
Consider what’s possible when public resources, community leadership and private financing align.
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The fight against Alzheimer’s should not be a partisan fight | Opinion
If we can manage to keep politics out of it, we have a chance, now, to turn the tide against the disease.
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Remembering Persephone, a cat of doglike loyalty | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
Our feline companion has, sadly, passed on to the next of her nine lives.
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Maine’s Dempsey Center shows the way on supportive cancer care | Opinion
This approach treats the whole person, not just the disease.
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Longing for an alien encounter? Hit the backyard. | Opinion
Common insects’ bodies and abilities are downright astonishing.
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AI license plate readers have no place in Maine | Opinion
For municipalities and police departments to use this technology as a form of surveillance violates Mainers’ Fourth Amendment rights.