If you’ve spent any time around political campaigns this year, you’ll have heard the stories. One candidate started field operations — knocking on doors, organizing volunteers, speaking directly with voters — months later than usual because the campaign couldn’t find anyone to take charge. Another had no press team until after Labor Day, despite being […]
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Voices: What can be done to pull democracy back from the edge?
Here are some suggestions: modify the Senate, replace gerrymandering, place limits on the tenure of Supreme Court justices.
Francis Wilkinson: Biden’s warning about democracy will go unheeded
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Maine Voices: The question of abortion should be a moot point
You do as you believe, I do as I believe.
The Maine Millennial: Medicine is a group project
Maine Med was full almost to bursting when I had my donor kidney removed there, but the staff made me feel like I was the only patient in the building.
Jim Fossel: Ideas should be above personalities
Let’s see if Republicans can move beyond Donald Trump the individual in the next presidential election.
Hilary Koch: On Election Day, and beyond, be a little red hen
A children’s book has a lot to say about the state of American politics.
Sen. Russell Black: There’s a lot behind the high price of heating oil
There’s been a lot of talk about what has driven these prices to their current highs.
Sen. Jeffrey Timberlake: After election, work on child deaths will go on
Some of the names may change in the Legislature, but the mission will stay the same.
Douglas Rooks: Campaigns little help, but voters still decide
Yes, elections are worse than they used to be, or at least they accomplish less in steering the course of the nation and each state.