A survey has elicited clear and compelling insights that Maine policymakers would be wise to listen to.
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Commentary: Maybe we should change how we talk to Mayberry about the COVID vaccine
This is what isn’t working: one side pushing to get immunized while the other pushes against it.
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Posted inElection 2022, Op-eds, Opinion
Commentary: As clock ticks down to midterms, tech should ramp up
Technology can get the kinds of big numbers that all democracies want in key elections, and safeguard people who turn out to vote.
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Maine Voices: Calling high school volunteers for local food security programs
With increased youth involvement, we can strengthen nutrition access for all students and families across Cumberland County.
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Maine Voices: Vaccine opposition both causes death and blocks others from care
My husband, who recently lost his unvaccinated twin to COVID, is himself awaiting surgery – and I don’t want anti-vaccine caregivers anywhere near him.
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Commentary: Newsom crushed the California recall. Let the phony fraud probes begin
As we look back on a waste of an election that cost taxpayers $276 million, the governor should take this moment to reflect on his shortcomings.
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Leonard Pitts: A reality TV show is turning social causes into a competition. And we all lose
You know how you kill a social revolution? You turn it into a commodity.
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Commentary: The European disease that’s mutated through the Black Death and COVID
As the biological virus attacks bodies, the mental virus of anti-Semitism infects hearts and cultures where hatred has never ceased to be endemic.
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Maine Voices: Two actions could save our children’s lives – now
Starting with kids 2 and under, all DHHS referrals should get an in-home assessment, and all open cases should receive a ‘desktop’ audit.
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Maine Voices: Our engagement in Afghanistan was not a failure until we quit
Our capitulation has swept aside considerations of future security risks, personal freedoms in the country and obligations to those we helped.