Despite signs that her health care protection bills wouldn’t be voted on by year’s end as promised, she supported tax reform anyway and now critics are saying she was played.
Bill Nemitz
Portland Press Herald opinion columns from Bill Nemitz.
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Bill Nemitz: Cuddling puppies is the wrong lesson for college students
UMaine at Farmington has better lessons to offer than how to de-stress with pre-exam puppy parties.
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It’s not too late for Sen. Collins to do right by Mainers
Her ‘yea’ vote on the tax reform bill was a step backward, but listening to her constituents, like she did when she helped save the Affordable Care Act, is what will help her now.
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Bill Nemitz: Another target of Republican tax bill: donations to nonprofits
No tax deduction means less incentive to donate, which in turn means less money for the local church, soup kitchen, youth group or myriad other organizations.
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Bill Nemitz: Tell legislators to save bill that could prevent more opioid deaths
The measure – sponsored by Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook – could be included in the upcoming legislative session through this week’s appeal process.
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Bill Nemitz: 100+ Women Who Care are building community one $50 check at a time
On the southern Maine chapter’s 3rd anniversary, the organization continues to show how easy it can be to raise cash for some of the region’s most pressing social needs.
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Bill Nemitz: Can ‘fanatical moderate’ Susan Collins recruit others?
Her serving as honorary co-chair of the bipartisan group No Labels could be a light at the end of a long, dark political tunnel.
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Bill Nemitz: Bangor museum honors Maine’s greeters and their troops
For years, the Maine Troop Greeters have left their homes at all hours, in all kinds of weather, to head to Bangor International Airport to thank troops for their service as they pass through.
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Bill Nemitz: Citizen-led democracy a big winner in Tuesday’s elections
Maine voters crushed an outsider’s effort to take advantage of the initiative process while using that process to impose their will on those who refused to listen on Medicaid expansion.
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Opinion podcast: Whose opinion is ‘Our View?’
Editorial page editors Greg Kesich and Sarah Collins try to demystify the endorsement process and columnist Bill Nemitz talks about the endorsement that wasn’t.