When it comes to responding to the state budget process, many options are open to the minority party in Augusta.
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Commentary: How to improve voter engagement for all Americans
Automatically receiving your ballot a few weeks before the election, and voting from the comfort of the space of your choosing, boosts voter turnout regardless of party affiliation.
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Commentary: Maine response to PFAS amounts to regulatory overreach
Regulators underestimate the cost of implementing PFAS regulations and fundamentally misunderstand the complex nature of these compounds.
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Commentary: Let’s not squander our chance to expand passenger rail
Restoration of passenger service from Brunswick to Waterville and Bangor will confer a wide array of economic benefits.
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Commentary: The gun lobby’s strength is cultural, not financial
The NRA’s biggest achievement has been defining the ownership of firearms as a distinctive form of social identity.
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Commentary: With federal opinion in hand, it’s time to relicense Shawmut dam, protect central Maine economy
Gov. Mills will be able to make good on her promise that the dam will remain viable and continue to support the Sappi mill.
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Clarence Page: Don’t let press freedom die in the ‘Sunshine State,’ or anywhere else
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims he’s helping ordinary people while threatening rights that make our democracy a model for the world.
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Commentary: Maine is an outlier for youth psychiatric treatment
L.D. 181 would require DHHS to eliminate the barriers to providing residential care for Maine young people closer to home.
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Commentary: No good will come from ban on flavored tobacco in Maine
Looking for a catastrophic policy failure? Look no further!
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Commentary: Toxic pesticides hurt all of us
Eight years ago, I transitioned our farm to organic. Why, then, do pesticides still bother me? Because some drift through the air for miles, polluting not only my farm and crops but also important habitats.