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Editorials
Opinions from the Portland Press Herald editorial board.
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Our View: Senate way off base on MaineCare for noncitizens
You want to talk about price tags? Excluding low-income noncitizens from routine health care comes with an unacceptable financial and social cost.
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Another View: Gas stove laws are pro-fossil fuel foolishness
Republicans’ efforts to ‘save’ the gas stove align squarely with the interests of oil and gas companies.
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Our View: Expansion of abortion access must be kept in context
The removal of certain limits on abortion in Maine would be transformational – just not in the way its opponents have suggested.
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Our View: Deficient, dangerous nurse staffing cannot stay as it is
Debate over the nurse-to-patient ratio bill under consideration in Augusta has shed a stark light on how dismal it is to work at the bedside. Although a fix is desperately needed, L.D. 1639 is too blunt an instrument.
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Opinion: China and Cuba are getting closer. Now is the time for Biden to reengage with Havana
China’s spy shop in Cuba is far more worrying than spy balloons over Montana.
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Our View: Maine must act now to make the most of offshore wind
The state can take critical steps this month to back an industry that promises both clean energy and good jobs.
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Our View: Pay attention to the act of driving
No matter what we do to make our roads safer, the buck has to stop with individual motorists.
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Our View: The effects of the global climate crisis will be local
Every additional bit of carbon pollution put into the atmosphere makes it more likely life in Maine will be made worse – by events both near and far.
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Our View: We must change the way we think about caregiving
Robust support for a proposal that would pay parent caregivers of children with special needs acknowledges just how badly broken our systems of care are.