A population explosion is straining infrastructure, hurting the climate, driving up the deficit and fueling competition for housing. Federal officials should keep this in mind when making policy.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: What would Jesus do now? It’s actually a radical question.
Recent Super Bowl ads suggested that Jesus is just like us, but what strikes me is how willing he was to upend easy pieties.
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Maine Voices: Coyotes protect songbirds, so let’s protect them
We need reasonable limits on the hunting of an animal that safeguards the declining bird population from cat predation.
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Maine Voices: I am grateful to you, Jimmy Carter, for being my role model
You have lived your ideals and made a real difference in the world, holding on to hope even as some of your biggest accomplishments have been dismantled.
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Maine Voices: 20 years ago, Sanford, Springvale residents gave warm sendoff to departing troops
And the same good cheer greeted the soldiers of the ‘3rd Herd’ when we returned after more than a year away from our families, friends and community.
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Maine Voices: South Portland’s shipyard waterfront should be vividly reimagined
The towers and parking lots of the proposed Yard South development do not belong next to Bug Light. What does? The sky’s the limit.
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Maine Voices: When the going gets tough, summon the solutions attitude
Prepare to act, then launch – no matter how long the odds of success. It worked for the Patriots in the 2017 Super Bowl (and for the cornstalk in the petunia patch).
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Maine Voices: Another challenge of climate change – registering its urgency while living our lives
It’s a difficult balance but one we must try to achieve, considering that we’re at the most life-threatening moment in history.
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Maine Voices: What can we, as citizens, do to help save the planet?
Keep telling our lawmakers that they need to support renewable energy, an updating of our electric grid and the end of government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
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Maine Voices: Blazing a trail through the history of Portland parks
Created after the Great Fire of 1866, Lincoln Park was the city’s first, a symbol of fortitude as well as a firebreak. Now there are a total of 68 for enjoyment at any time of year.