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Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: Commitment to affordable college tuition is a boon for schools, students
Gov. LePage has led a push to freeze costs while increasing access for people across the state.
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Maine Voices: Failure of state superdelegates to get behind Sanders undermines representative democracy
The 30-year-old system, which disenfranchises local voters, is undemocratic and should be changed.
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Maine Voices: Immigrants learning English in Portland encounter the kindness of Mainers
The helpfulness of 33 Mainers stands in contrast with the anti-immigrant rhetoric from some politicians.
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Maine Voices: University of New England at forefront of efforts against opioid addiction
Its medical school, ahead of the curve on the issue for many years, has now signed on to an Obama administration initiative.
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Maine Voices: Leaders who plunder Clean Elections fund ignore will of Maine voters
By borrowing from it, governors and legislators threaten the solvency of an initiative meant to lessen the influence of special-interest money on our elections.
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Maine Voices: School bell should toll at a later opening time for teen students
Teens have biological clocks that are shifted 90 minutes later than those of adults and younger kids.
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Maine Voices: Federal Medicaid expansion funds would help ease drug crisis
Other states are using this health care money to treat addiction and reduce related crime – saving dollars and lives.
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Maine Voices: New state proposal to restrict mental health services is a reckless idea
When diagnoses can be so subjective, we can’t afford to take away support that helps those stricken move forward.
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Maine Voices: Lawmakers should defeat making drug possession a felony offense
Maine must move away from the failed policies of the drug war that merely filled up our prisons.