Do ubiquitous cameras really contribute to our overall security? If not, we’re sacrificing the right to go about our lives without our every step being tracked.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Jim Fossel: Trump is not the ‘presumptive nominee’
Yes, the former president certainly has a hefty lead. But the race is far from over.
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Opinion: Once a liberal, I am now a liberal Republican
The Democrats simply do not need my vote as much as the Republicans do.
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Opinion: Maine must expand mental health access across state lines
Now is the time for us to become part of the Social Work Interstate Compact.
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Commentary: US tax dollars should be funding humanitarian relief work in Gaza, not destroying it
Over the past five decades, American taxpayers have invested more than $7 billion to finance hundreds of projects in humanitarian relief and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all under the banner of “ peacebuilding.” But the Biden administration is currently providing the weaponry that is killing the very people the government […]
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Opinion: Don’t let Trump and Biden abandon the debates
The only thing worse than presidential debates may be a campaign without them.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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Douglas Rooks: For presidential campaign clues, look abroad
What’s going on in Israel and Britain may, once again, foretell what’s going to happen here.
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ON MUSIC: Jontavious Willis says blues is about sharing the experience
Reconnecting with artists is always fun, especially when they are enthusiastic about our great State of Maine — such is the case of today’s chat with Jontavious Willis, who will be coming to One Longfellow Square. He called me from Luthersville, Georgia, on Jan. 5, and the bluesman was more than happy to talk with […]
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Commentary: Some Americans (but not you and me) can avoid taking responsibility for their mistakes
Suppose that when you did something bad, you could split off another you to deal with it, basically by dying and taking the punishment with it. You can’t. But you could if you were a corporation, and would if you were a corporation owned by Charles Koch and you wanted to avoid possibly paying lots […]