With the GOP poised to increase its Senate majority around the time of the vote, Kavanaugh’s rejection would have paved the way for a nominee more hostile to the right to choose.
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Maine Voices: Our state’s actions are key to reversing trend of bird population decline
Well-managed forests can sustain livelihoods while ensuring that birds still have places to nest and raise their young.
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Maine Voices: Maine courts need a science and technology adviser
The outcome of a recent rockweed-harvesting case underscores the need to provide judges with unique expertise.
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Maine Voices: Message to candidates: Give me someone I can vote for
Negative campaigning can tear down, but we need to hear from a candidate who can build up our society.
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Maine Voices: Our state should lead the way on opening up primaries to all voters
The current system gives presidential nominating power to the parties and takes it away from the people.
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Maine Voices: Let’s move forward together to address injustice, not take a step back
The We Must Do MORE Tour, a civic engagement movement grounded in the concerns of the poor, is coming to Portland on Oct. 10.
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Maine Voices: New owner’s plans for Bayside Village don’t pass the straight-face test
The number of units in the Portland apartment complex effectively will be halved, but no tenants will be displaced? Right.
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Maine Voices: Portland’s city manager system stymies democratic, pro-worker policies
Reformers should focus on reducing the power of or eliminating the position and overhauling the City Council as well.
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Maine Voices: Young people need to hear the truth about vaping
Hard-fought reductions in teen smoking are being lost to the rise of the use of e-cigarettes, which are just as deadly.
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Maine Voices: Make room for Maine youths on skiing, snowboarding slopes
Sugarloaf initiatives are working to expand winter sports access to kids in Franklin and Somerset counties who are being squeezed out by high costs.