Our View: Congress comes together finally to help national parks
The Great American Outdoors Act was a great step, but the work shouldn't end there.
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The Maine Millennial: Zombie virus comes back for young victim
Shingles is a painful condition, but it can be treated – if you have health insurance.
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Jim Fossel: SCOTUS seat should not be filled during campaign season
A rushed, partisan confirmation process would further politicize the court, damaging its credibility.
Letters to the Editor
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Door-to-door census enumerators get a deep look at life in Maine.
More in Opinion
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As the waters in the Gulf of Maine are warming rapidly, the Trump administration's policies are making it worse.
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A simmering pot of garden tomatoes brings a writer back across many miles and years.
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Stand With Maine powers on in its quest to control campaign spending by way of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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We can’t prevent forest fires. We can only adapt to a climate that makes them bigger and more common.
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It’s been a long summer, but we’re happy you can visit again without having to quarantine.
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From politicizing the Supreme Court to refusing to commit to a peaceful transition, our norm-busting president is taking us into a danger zone.
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We must pause the nomination process, or risk tens of millions of Americans having their coverage ripped away.
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The Maine media should not play into the national parties’ plan to shift focus away from local issues.
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Focus on safeguarding U.S. interests in Iraq and Afghanistan, not on getting troop levels to zero.
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September 26When you ask your hygienist about the most horrible thing she’s ever seen, look out.
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Climate change is already doing a lot of damage – and the prohibition on the sale of new fossil-fuel cars is 15 years away.
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That avowed pro-lifers are advocating letting the unfit perish for the sake of the fit is nothing short of paradoxical.
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The late Supreme Court justice sought to persuade her opponents, rather than destroy them.
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An open-primary amendment is on the Sunshine State ballot – let’s urge friends and family who now live there to support it.
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Carelessness and failed leadership turned a few cases of the coronavirus into Maine’s biggest outbreak.
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We’ll need face coverings to contain infections once a vaccine does become available and people let their guard down.
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September 24We need to encourage bipartisanship by restoring the 60-vote threshold for advancing nominations to the high court.
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The state is a leader when it comes to inclusive voting laws, with one important exception.
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September 23While ‘Black on Black crime’ is, at least sometimes, punished, Police-on-Black crime seldom is.
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September 24They’ll be empowered to do bigger and better things for Maine and to participate in the democratic process.
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As the U.S. surpasses 200,000 deaths from the virus, the president says that it ‘affects virtually nobody.’
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Arguments in the case will be heard Nov. 10; if the Supreme Court rejects the ACA, nearly 100,000 Mainers will lose coverage.
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For more than half a century the late judge fought for equal rights, and the nation needs a chance to mourn her loss.
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Hotter, drier weather in the West creates the perfect conditions for annual fires big enough to damage the national economy.
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Despite the divisive politics, regulators can run a fast process that is also a safe one.
Maine Voices Columns
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