Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it
If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
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Maine Voices: Redevelopment efforts firmly on path to realizing vision for former Brunswick Navy base
Brunswick Landing is becoming the bustling live, work and play community envisioned in the Reuse Master Plan, and the Topsham Commerce Park is fully developed.
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Maine Voices: Dismantling white supremacy requires a good mirror
Telling a person of color that the work of eliminating racial injustice is essentially complete is a tactic used to oppress minority populations.
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Maine Voices: Water-based nonprofits need space on Portland’s eastern waterfront
A commitment to community water access should help shape a proposal to create a harborfront park.
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Maine Voices: The Tulsa Race Massacre is America’s own Tiananmen Square
We too have buried both bodies and the truth. Only when we admit our past can we stand with the victims of other nations.
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Maine Voices: Ambivalence persists about roles, rights of Mainers with disabilities
Two recent stories show we’re undermining our pledges of inclusion by perpetuating a history rife with prejudice and bias.
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Maine Voices: Let voters decide public power question
Investor-owned utilities have proven that they can sow doubt, but they haven’t shown they can deliver affordable and reliable power.
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Maine Voices: Imagining a different way of celebrating Father’s Day
When everyone’s focus turns to Dad, why not use that special attention to help others?
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Maine Voices: Panic about critical race theory undercuts students’ search for truth
Young people aren’t fooled by attempts to treat stories from U.S. history and American literature like shameful family secrets to be covered up, a Maine teacher says.