Maybe we should get rid of gender labels on government-issued IDs altogether.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: A call for calm in the hostilities over Brett Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins undertook substantive research before deciding to vote for Kavanaugh, says a member of the working group that helped her review his record.
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Maine Voices: Governor candidates lack strategies for reducing road fatalities
None seem to be moved by Maine’s dismal record on highway safety, especially when compared with the U.K.
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Maine Voices: Church of Safe Injection treats drug users as Jesus would have done
He would have offered them sterile syringes, naloxone and nonjudgmental support.
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Maine Voices: Statewide project aims to explode myths, tell rich stories of immigration
At a time when migration is seen as a threat, 70 community partners hope to raise public awareness in Maine about those ‘from away’ who share a love of America.
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Maine Voices: Maine delegation must choose: Will we be complicit in Yemen’s destruction?
Anything less than full-throated opposition is complicity in Saudi Arabia’s barbaric famine campaign.
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Maine Voices: Despite bad behavior of some men, most of us are good guys
We should start to think positively and stop believing claims without evidence.
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Maine Voices: History, recent and past, shows high court’s power over rights
The Supreme Court’s decisions are crucial to democracy, so its membership shouldn’t be underestimated.
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Maine Voices: Sobering new U.N. report validates climate science, economics
A price on carbon and an internationally coordinated and enforceable effort are surely the way forward.
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Maine Voices: Strong economy, antics on Kavanaugh may leave ‘blue wave’ dead in the water
By stooping to Trump tactics, Democrats lost their edge with independents, whose midterm choice went from disliking his disruption of norms to deciding primarily on each side’s policies.