Correcting medical bias will require vigilance and care.
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Commentary: Dark side of Land for Maine’s Future bond – hunting, fishing and trapping mandate
Conserving land with taxpayer funds shouldn’t require giving up local control and letting the state set the terms.
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Maine Voices: I am home – but I still don’t feel safe here
Amid increasing anti-Asian racism, a half-Chinese Portland resident wonders where she can go to fit in.
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Maine Voices: Public’s bleak view of Congress inevitable result of negative campaigning
Contests as hostile as Maine’s 2020 U.S. Senate race fuel the kind of pessimism that stymies lawmakers long after the last sign is taken down.
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Rep. Jared Golden: Health care reform just got harder
By using budget reconciliation to enact COVID relief in 2021, Democrats have set up a fight with Republicans over expiring subsidies in 2023.
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Maine Senate president: Maine Med nurses deserve to be heard. With a union, they will be.
By banding together, the nurses who have been there for patients like me will be better able to speak out and improve their own health and safety conditions.
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Commentary: Good news for the planet – protecting public lands and making electric vehicles
It bodes well for our chances of reaching net-zero emissions that President Biden is discouraging oil and gas extraction and GM is committing itself to electric cars.
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Maine Voices: Apologizing 101 – how to say ‘I’m sorry’ and mean it
In cases of abuse and harassment, any apology usually sidesteps culpability at a time when no-excuses contrition is what’s needed.
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Leonard Pitts: Republican Party considers ballots more dangerous than bullets
Republicans can’t win if all of us vote. So they’re trying hard to ‘fix’ that.
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Commentary: Senate will expedite Maine, national recovery by advancing the DREAM Act
A small group of undocumented immigrants brought here as children offer invaluable contributions to our country and should be allowed to stay.