The higher education system in Maine has been woefully underfunded.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: Congress has an opportunity to lower drug costs – and there’s no time to waste
People who take insulin are among those hardest hit by spiraling expenses. A new medication pricing bill would help them.
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George Smith: Politicians should get out and meet the people
Public forums from our congressional delegation should be more common.
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Maine Compass: Domestic abuse destroys lives even when it doesn’t end them
All intimate-partner violence takes a toll, and stopping it requires seeing it for what it is.
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Commentary: Collins’ bill fails to address root cause of drug shortages
She knows what the problem is: pricing and contracting practices that benefit suppliers and hospital executives at patients’ expense.
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Commentary: Maine delegation should push to protect children, families from ‘forever chemicals’
Sens. Collins and King and Rep. Golden are uniquely situated to ensure that Congress approves vital PFAS reforms.
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Another View: Empower people with disabilities to make own decisions
Maine should put less effort into fixing guardianship and more into helping people live without a guardian.
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Commentary: Give us back our sunshine — make daylight saving time year round
“We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.” — James Gleick, science historian Stop teasing us, Congress. Floridians are outdoorsy people, and we want our sunshine. Give it back. The current method of trying to bend Mother Nature to human purposes by observing part of the year in daylight saving time […]
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Maine Compass: The joy of sending and receiving a ‘real letter’
A carefully crafted missive can, as Wordsworth said, ‘Fill the paper with the breathings of my heart.’
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Bill Nemitz: Good luck and Godspeed, Maine’s ‘mighty mice’
Space-bound rodents from The Jackson Laboratory join a menagerie of animals who long have answered the call.