To our detriment, birthplace played a powerful role in Maine’s U.S. Senate race.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine Voices: Maine needs a public defender service
As attention is focused on the harm done in the name of criminal justice, now is the time to make this change.
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The View From Here: Maine Democrats will start soul searching
The election offers no clarity in the battle between moderates and progressives for the party’s soul.
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What is it like to have COVID-19? One reporter’s diary, from mild symptoms to a brush with death
A former Press Herald reporter details his experience with the virus.
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The Maine Millennial: Re-election numbers have lessons for Susan Collins
She should take to heart the fact that 49% of the votes cast Tuesday were for someone else and become a true moderate.
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Karl W. Smith: How to get a possible Biden presidency off to a good start
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Maine Voices: The fate of a species is in our hands
Until new, long-term protections for right whales are in place, federal regulators must take emergency action.
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Noah Feldman: Trump’s election lawsuits are legally hollow
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Douglas Rooks: In Maine, split decisions all the way down the ballot
All the divisions in American politics that have hardened over the past generation were very much on display.
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Maine Voices: New plan to kill CMP corridor will have unintended consequences
The latest referendum push wouldn’t just block this project but would also create hurdles for other clean-energy proposals.