Mills maintains that the best outcome for both the Wabanaki and the state can be obtained at the negotiating table. It shouldn’t be said another time; it should happen now.
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Our View: Maine colleges strike the right note on affirmative action
Strong responses to last week’s Supreme Court ruling indicate that institutional leadership is thinking about diversity in the right way.
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Another View: Supreme Court right to reject radical independent state legislature theory
The decision should make greedy partisan majorities in state legislatures think twice before trying to engineer an unfair advantage in redistricting or election laws.
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Our View: A budget that works for Maine families is a budget worth passing
The Legislature should support the bipartisan spending plan passed last week by the Appropriations Committee.
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Our View: Senate way off base on MaineCare for noncitizens
You want to talk about price tags? Excluding low-income noncitizens from routine health care comes with an unacceptable financial and social cost.
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Another View: Gas stove laws are pro-fossil fuel foolishness
Republicans’ efforts to ‘save’ the gas stove align squarely with the interests of oil and gas companies.
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Our View: Expansion of abortion access must be kept in context
The removal of certain limits on abortion in Maine would be transformational – just not in the way its opponents have suggested.
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Our View: Deficient, dangerous nurse staffing cannot stay as it is
Debate over the nurse-to-patient ratio bill under consideration in Augusta has shed a stark light on how dismal it is to work at the bedside. Although a fix is desperately needed, L.D. 1639 is too blunt an instrument.
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Our View: The effects of the global climate crisis will be local
Every additional bit of carbon pollution put into the atmosphere makes it more likely life in Maine will be made worse – by events both near and far.
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Our View: We must change the way we think about caregiving
Robust support for a proposal that would pay parent caregivers of children with special needs acknowledges just how badly broken our systems of care are.