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Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: Early childhood educators need our urgent support
Access to child care is a cross-sector issue affecting every working family I know. Our children deserve better.
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Maine Voices: Are you proud of what Portland has become?
Our community is now recognized as one of the most livable small cities in New England and nationwide. Existing local governance got it there.
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Maine Voices: Don’t dismiss fish farms’ threat to our state’s coastal waters
Based on the risks to water quality and sea life, an application for two 60-acre salmon farms off Bar Harbor should be rejected.
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Maine Voices: Kennebec River dam debate hijacked by red herring
Fish passage proponents have agreed to a solution that preserves access to adequate water for the Sappi paper mill. It’s now a question of commitment, engineering options and funding.
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Maine Voices: Modernizing U.S. foreign farmworker system isn’t just right – it’s critical
Farmers like us need multi-season access to the same highly skilled workers. Workers need that stability, too.
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Maine Voices: Outdated law denies appropriate care to people with serious brain disorders
Hospital violence, in Maine as elsewhere, can be traced right back to a federal law from 1965.
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Maine Voices: A Mainer in London lines up to see the Queen
Eight hours with other mourners in “Elizabeth line” led me to personally reflect on loss, grief and moving on.
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Maine Voices: American ‘devolution’ would be unmitigated global catastrophe
Fiction has the luxury of not having to worry about issues it fails to consider. Reality doesn’t.
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Maine Voices: An invitation to step off the trail and sit on the Earth itself
Being alone in nature, in silence, is far from weird. It’s wonderful.