To save the endangered animal, implement and fully fund rules aimed at reducing fatal fishing gear entanglements.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Jim Fossel: Democrats won’t defeat Trump if they all move to the left
Maine Democrats know they can’t go all-in on every liberal position without losing voters – when will their national counterparts get this?
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The Maine Millennial: Fighting for survival should not be a crime
Who is really to blame when a migrant father dies alongside the child he was trying to save?
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Mavis Longfellow: A letter to my grandchildren
Reflecting on the waste of addiction.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Holocaust comparisons have unintended consequences
The lessons of Hitler’s reign of brutality are weakened if every injustice is likened to them.
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Insight: The man who made Maine a 2-party state
Best remembered as a federal judge, Frank M. Coffin said he was most proud of his work with Edmund S. Muskie to revive the Maine Democratic Party in the 1950s.
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Greg Kesich: Immigration stories belie nativist rhetoric
People moving around the globe are not being sent by shadowy figures who are up to mischief.
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Maine Voices: Chief Justice Roberts resorts to flawed theory to justify punting on gerrymandering
Originalism is wholesale fraud, manufactured by Justice Antonin Scalia and the Federalist Society.
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Christine M. Flowers: Nike’s Betsy Ross debacle scores one for political correctness
The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays, even though I despise the summer. That’s because this most red, white, and blue of our annual celebrations belongs to Philadelphia in a particularly personal way. Despite our attempts to ruin it (See Rizzo, Frank near Debacle, Bicentennial) there is something transcendent in the fact […]
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Tom Waddell: The court’s ‘limited’ rulings
We’ll see just how limited they are.