If less than 1.5% in Portland area home price increases can be attributed to short-term rentals, clearly more is going on in the market.
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Maine Voices: Bring nurses and doctors into medical billing conversation
With the Press Herald’s reporting as an exception, I have failed to understand the media’s resistance to this important subject.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Introducing Captain Florida, the opportunist
In which a version of Gov. Ron DeSantis stands up to tolerance and punches it in the nose.
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Maine Voices: The Inflation Reduction Act is better than you might think
Critics say increased inflation means we can’t afford its measures. In fact, the cost of not taking climate action would far exceed the legislation’s incentives.
Posted inElection 2022, Op-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Enough is Enough approach diminishes role of Portland voters
The blanket approach of the new group, launched to defeat all 14 of November’s ballot questions, reflects distrust of the electorate.
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Commentary: Lawyers are to be blamed for lack of access to justice in Maine
It’s not that attorneys don’t want to represent low-income clients – it’s that we’ve made it impossible for each other to do so.
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Maine Voices: Ukrainian refugee experience echoes my forebears’ journey
My family were given no choice but to leave Poland during World War I. Like legions of Polish refugees at the time, they eventually built good lives for themselves in Portland.
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Commentary: Biden’s debt cancellation won’t end the student loan crisis
Congressional action is still needed to reform the way the government funds higher education.
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Jim Fossel: Beware the bond-funded Maine job initiative
Both voters and politicians act as if bonds are piles of free money flowing from rainbows. Would that it were the case.
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Maine Observer: Why I keep coming back to a town in Oxford County
Year in, year out, I take a sentimental journey to and throughout Rumford, where I once was surrounded by family.