Complaints about socialism are really focused on the social safety net, which is part of a capitalist society.
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Commentary: Land trusts, sportsmen work to revitalize Land for Maine’s Future
Thanks to our elected policymakers’ leadership, Mainers have made a bold statement that the state’s special places deserve to be preserved and managed for the future.
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Leonard Pitts: Police officers refuse to let deniers shove the horror of Jan. 6 off the stage
Donald Trump and his enablers have been trying to murder memory. At a hearing Tuesday in Washington, memory fought back.
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Commentary: How Maine is leveraging post-COVID economy to offer better job opportunities
Grant funding and technical assistance will help us connect job seekers to work, education and training, Maine’s labor commissioner says.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Variant’s spread makes COVID vaccination more urgent
Being inoculated mitigates delta’s impact and keeps it from spreading, says a Maine doctor after the virus hits home.
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Maine Voices: Corporate polluters should pay the tab for Maine’s climate damages
The time-honored way to make that happen is through the courts of our state.
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Commentary: End discrimination in Maine against religious school families
By barring the use of public funding for religious high schools, the state is violating the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, says the firm representing three Maine families.
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Maine Voices: Reckoning with the ‘Trail of Tears’
States are passing laws to protect us from our history. But we should not hide from it.
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Maine Voices: Private colleges are economic engines for Maine
Encouraging Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges to grow would help get well-educated people to live and work here.
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Maine Voices: Billionaires’ space tourism is a farce
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson think we should applaud them for leaving the planet instead of spending to fix problems here on Earth.