Tipped income provides a great living for many workers in the city. The proposal for an $18-an-hour minimum wage would take that away.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: Consider embarking on a flowerbed safari
Insects outnumber us on the planet by more than 200 million times. I decided to take a closer look.
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Maine Voices: May I give you a reason to be hopeful?
The needs of our friends and neighbors increase every day. My community, despite being divided on many fronts, comes together to meet those needs.
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Maine Voices: Trailer parks wrongly overlooked in affordable-housing debate
Maine has the highest rate of mobile homes in the northeastern U.S. It’s past time to help those communities out.
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Maine Voices: Bring nurses and doctors into medical billing conversation
With the Press Herald’s reporting as an exception, I have failed to understand the media’s resistance to this important subject.
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Maine Voices: The Inflation Reduction Act is better than you might think
Critics say increased inflation means we can’t afford its measures. In fact, the cost of not taking climate action would far exceed the legislation’s incentives.
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Maine Voices: Let’s tell elected officials we value, expect universal medical care
Billions of dollars in medical bills have been paid via crowdsourcing platforms like GoFundMe. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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Maine Voices: Ukrainian refugee experience echoes my forebears’ journey
My family were given no choice but to leave Poland during World War I. Like legions of Polish refugees at the time, they eventually built good lives for themselves in Portland.
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Maine Voices: A New Yorker responds to *that* New York Post column
Last week, gossip columnist Cindy Adams bemoaned what she found to be a lack of fashion, a shortage of elegant stores and an excess of beer in Maine. Here’s what I have to say about that.
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Maine Voices: There’s no good reason to resent education loan forgiveness
I say this as somebody with almost a quarter of a million dollars in student debt – which I plan to pay back.