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Bill Nemitz
Portland Press Herald opinion columns from Bill Nemitz.
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Bill Nemitz: LePage should put people who overdose before politics
Maine’s bullheaded governor insists that naloxone, rather than saving lives, only delays inevitable deaths.
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Maine’s Republican director failed to file income tax returns
Jason Savage, who has been linked to the anonymous right-wing website Maine Examiner, says ‘it’s been an unfortunate personal situation with many factors beyond my control.’
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Bill Nemitz: Maine Examiner has Republican official’s fingerprints all over it
But silent on the matter is Jason Savage, the Maine Republican Party’s executive director.
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Bill Nemitz: With no border wall to keep out racists, Jackman learns Maine employers have to weed them out
The possibility of inadvertently putting a racist in a government job probably hasn’t occurred to many who do the hiring, but the Tom Kawczynski case suggests it should.
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Bill Nemitz: What are the rules of the road for marijuana?
Impaired driving on pot looms as one of the most vexing challenges facing policymakers and police alike.
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Bill Nemitz: Debacle in Maine classroom shows trickle-down effect of Trump’s immigrant bashing
Behavior that would have been out of bounds in the pre-Trump world has become acceptable to many people, and it cost a substitute teacher her job.
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Nemitz: Voter fraud panel takes on trappings of TV sitcom
A zealot takes us down memory lane with ‘Hogan’s Heroes.’
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Bill Nemitz: When it comes to pot, Attorney General Sessions increasingly alone in futile fight
His decision to end an Obama-era policy that had federal authorities look the other way on pot-law enforcement ignores the obvious social movement in the opposite direction.
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Bill Nemitz: Signature gathering all part of Election Day fun
Petition circulators and information distributors are key parts in the civic engagement process.