Non-government entities can manage helping the city’s homeless in a more cost-effective manner.
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Maine Voices: State could magnify its allure by removing more dams from its rivers
Losing a bit of hydropower in order to allow fish migrations and boost outdoor tourism is easily worth the trade-off.
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Commentary: Using your real name on the internet is risky. Here’s an idea for a better way
People should be able to adopt digital pseudonyms to keep web behaviors from affecting their daily lives.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry extends even to those documented
The president doesn’t want to realize that such bias may be detrimental to all Americans.
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Leonard Pitts: Here’s how real ‘BlacKkKlansman’ described his infiltration in 2006
The undercover police officer now featured in a Spike Lee film was viewed back then as a ‘loyal and dedicated’ Klansman, although he had to send a white cop to face-to-face meetings with other members.
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Commentary: Imagine a world where a lottery is your ticket to a prestigious university
Schools would decide minimum criteria such as GPA, and then a drawing would allow for long-overdue objectivity.
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Maine Voices: Absent oversight, condo associations can stymie energy-efficiency goals
Unlike state agencies, the regulatory groups handle complex matters with little guidance on how to do so.
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Commentary: Manafort trial raises several questions: Why risk tax fraud?
And why does a man in desperate financial trouble volunteer to run Trump’s campaign – for free?
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Maine Voices: In high-profile sexual assault cases, accusers have a lot to lose
The public may take sides based on the alleged perpetrator’s reputation rather than on the facts of the case.
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Commentary: As white supremacist rally flops, note treatment of them by police, media
Police protected the racists all day in the Washington area. Compare that with Ferguson, Missouri, where guns were trained on black protesters.