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News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
How we know global warming is happening
By the year 2100, the temperature of the atmosphere is likely to climb higher than it’s ever been in the last 784,000 years, writes Dana Wilde.
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Posted inColumns, Maine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Military spending must be cost-effective and proportional to real threats
Obscenely irresponsible fiscal behavior in Defense Department spending needs to stop.
Posted inColumns, Maine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Come 2030, we’ll see that Trump really did set the world on fire
History will judge harshly those who enabled the election of a dangerous demagogue.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
The old man and the snow: the final battle
This winter’s Great White Bull comes not with whipping winds and big cold flakes, but instead softly, with no battle to be fought and no victory to be won, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Maine Voices, Only Online, Opinion
Maine Voices: Help stop the harm done by Maine’s underfunding of higher education
We need a broad, bipartisan coalition to advocate for public colleges, which are an asset of all Maine people.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
The fight against fake news
As a writer and a librarian, I am a fierce defender of the First Amendment but also an ardent advocate of the truth, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inColumns, Maine Voices, Only Online, Opinion
Maine Voices: Mainers should shun reviled Briton who campaigned for Brexit
Citing animosity and fears for his family’s safety, Nigel Farage says he is considering making a move to Maine.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
For Waterville man, a journey of identity and belonging
Rien Finch Heidt has faced deep struggles with transgender identity and has found civic belonging in Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Pictures of an indelible moment in 1941
Muffled voices, the smell of coffee, Vicks VapoRub, smoke on the porch — the senses aid recollection of the attack on Pearl Harbor, J.P. Devine writes.