Social media and the present coronavirus have added words to our vocabulary and expanded the meanings of familiar ones.
Op-eds
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Maine Voices: COVID serves as dress rehearsal for dealing with climate crisis
Comparing the response to the virus by Canada and by the U.S. is illuminating and instructive.
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Maine Voices: A real world is out there. It invites our attention
Campaigns – for president and Congress – are not bothering to acknowledge our critical situation or address its causes and remedies.
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Commentary: Thanks to the Supreme Court, ‘10 Angry Men’ can no longer send you to prison
The court now has said that most of the significant protections of the Bill of Rights – the ones dealing with personal liberty – do apply to the states.
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Commentary: Wet markets breed contagions like COVID. The U.S. has thousands of them
The public health threat isn’t a foreign enemy. It’s here, too.
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Maine Voices: Let’s enjoy Maine’s outdoors responsibly during COVID crisis
Lawmakers can help by investing in the federal and state programs that make public lands available.
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Leonard Pitts: A call for ‘liberty’ is a call for death
Anti-lockdown protesters can’t bear to be forced to do a thing, even if that thing is necessary to save lives.
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Maine Voices: COVID financial challenges can be teachable moment for parents
Honest and positive discussions can help reduce kids’ anxiety and provide valuable lessons.
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Councilor Thibodeau: Maine’s future, and our planet’s future, depends on new leadership in the White House
Joe Biden will stand up to polluters, work toward a clean-energy economy and make the U.S. a leader on climate change again.
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Bill Nemitz: The joy of breaking ground, with a Maine-grown earworm in my head
David Mallett’s ‘The Garden Song’ has inspired green thumbs for decades, but never so much as in the spring of 2020.