Weather warnings are among the most concrete examples of how good information can actually save lives.
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Sen. Libby: Maine stands up to drug companies looking to profit off a crisis
Legislators have passed bills aimed at medication cost control and billing transparency – now we must focus on reining in the price of treating COVID.
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Maine Voices: Large-scale solar development rush must strike delicate balance
As projects attract investment, the risk to natural areas is high, but with careful planning, so is the reward of clean energy and good jobs.
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Commentary: Lobstering restrictions will hurt much more than Maine’s fishermen
Giving to the Maine Lobstermen’s Association Legal Defense Fund will mitigate the impact of right-whale rules and protect thousands of other businesses.
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Insight: Antitrust laws are no match for Big Tech
Century-old statutes can’t cope with companies that maintain market dominance through harvesting data for free.
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Bill Nemitz: What day is it? Welcome to ‘Blursday’
For many amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like the hands on the clock have stopped moving.
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Maine Observer: Hamilton speaks to the potential of new beginnings
It takes a kind of genius to look at a story from the past and create something that can speak to a new world.
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Jim Fossel: Republicans should hold firm on taxes in Augusta
Whenever the Legislature comes back into session, GOP members should use their clout to roll back 2019’s spending spree.
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Maine Voices: Set a place at the table for someone who doesn’t agree with you
Over a good meal, we may never see eye to eye, but we can seek to understand, rather than to be understood.
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The Maine Millennial: Teetering on the unemployment cliff
What’s keeping workers at home? It’s not a $600 weekly payment – it’s the coronavirus.