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Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
Maine Voices: The youth mental health crisis demands our full attention
It’s getting harder and harder for young people to visualize their futures. That has to change.
Maine Voices: Don’t let the UMS furor distract from the task at hand
The University of Maine System is an endangered asset deserving of our full attention and most insistent support.
Maine Voices: Greenland has much to teach its nearest American neighbor
A group of University of Maine students find themselves on a multifaceted expedition this summer.
Maine Voices: Why are Portland property owners subsidizing wealthy Bostonians?
The outcome of the popular vote is unpopular in several quarters.
Maine Voices: Dobbs resurrects the very worst of American ‘history and tradition’
The principles on which the Supreme Court’s judgement relies deserve to be left in the past.
Maine Voices: I want my daughters to have the same choices as I had
The Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade forces me to revisit a painful – and until now private – part of my past.
Maine Voices: World language reading in K-12 has wide-ranging benefits
Breaking away from English in early education promotes empathy and challenges biases. Like so much else, it can start with a book.
Maine Voices: Maine’s construction industry is ready to build our clean energy future
But if we continue to block large-scale, multi-year infrastructure projects like the New England Clean Energy Connect, our economy will not grow.
Maine Voices: Court erases last vestige of anti-Catholic law
The bigoted, anti-immigrant policies of Maine’s James G. Blaine was behind Maine’s ban on public funding for religious schools.