A judge shouldn’t take a gift if it might create the appearance of favoritism or using their job for personal gain. Someone who’s been a justice for over 30 years should know that.
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Maine Voices: Emphasis on revenue sabotages medical practices and hospitals
At some point, most of us who entered medicine for altruistic reasons find ourselves providing a declining quality of care.
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Maine Voices: Consider Jesus’ preferred pronouns, and true regard for the other
In Maine and elsewhere, transphobic legislation seeks to enshrine a dangerous and unorthodox notion of religious freedom.
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Maine Voices: Anti-trans obsessions have zero connection to reality
The term ‘transgenderism’ frames it as a choice. (Remember the gay ‘lifestyle’?) It’s not a choice, nor a modern invention.
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Maine Voices: Stigma surrounding community college sets everybody back
Kids enrolling in two-year institutions allow themselves the time and space to figure things out. Way more of them should be doing it.
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Maine Voices: We need to continue uncovering hidden histories, not ignoring them
Any historical material that illuminates the past and present is valuable, even if – especially if – it tells an uncomfortable story.
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Maine Voices: Greatness in women’s basketball? It’s nothing new
Women athletes have been dazzling on the court for over a hundred years.
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Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true
Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.
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Maine Voices: What’s more important, your AR-15 or your kid?
Americans do not value life. Our ongoing failure to put children over gun ownership makes that clear.
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Maine Voices: As 2024 election ramps up, parties must seek statesmen for candidates
We’ve seen the impact on our country of a president who peddles deceit, brews trouble and incites hostility.