Having watched the substantial change Maine has undergone in a half century, I’m surprised the term still has so much currency.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: In housing as elsewhere, central planning is no substitute for local control
The density-focused zoning legislation passed last year offered an unsettling preview of the direction we’re headed in.
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Maine Voices: York County vaccine clinic was a master class in local teamwork
People came together at the Marshall’s vaccination site in Sanford to create an invaluable resource for the community in the pandemic. Not every rural community was so fortunate.
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Maine Voices: Where Portland’s workforce housing falls far short
Eligibility rules mean that anybody who needs a leg up to buy their own home cannot avail themselves of the ‘decent, safe and affordable housing’ our city ‘works to ensure.’
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Maine Voices: A grandmother’s thoughts on a world on the brink of ecological collapse
As part of the generation that holds 70% of the disposable income in our country, I want that wealth to go to reversing the environmental damage we have done.
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Maine Voices: Sen. King must rethink position on Wabanaki access to federal laws
He has not offered any solid, reasonable or well explained reasons for his opposition to the Advancing Equality for Wabanaki Nations Act. Why?
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Maine Voices: Free community college comes with upsides and downsides
While more opportunity, more education and more support for underfunded institutions are good things, community colleges and other institutions must prepare for costs and other consequences.
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Maine Voices: Weathering the ice storm of ’98 as CMP spokesman
The strongest memory I have from those cold, exhausting days was the kindness of neighbors helping each other and utility crews working long hours in unbearable conditions to restore power.
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Maine Voices: My patients need paid family and medical leave – and so do you
The current system of unpaid leave is damaging and stressful for both the patients seeking care and the people responsible for providing that care.
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Maine Voices: It’s Mother Nature’s world – we’re just living in it
As we reflect on memories of the ice storm of 1998, we watch the current roller-coaster weather leave our immediate surroundings in utter chaos.