We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.
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Maine Voices: Pitchers and catchers report
A non-fan tries to introduce his son to the wide world of sports via the town baseball clinic. Things almost immediately don’t go as planned.
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Maine Voices: Rethinking the future – how much growth do we want?
A population explosion is straining infrastructure, hurting the climate, driving up the deficit and fueling competition for housing. Federal officials should keep this in mind when making policy.
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Maine Voices: What would Jesus do now? It’s actually a radical question.
Recent Super Bowl ads suggested that Jesus is just like us, but what strikes me is how willing he was to upend easy pieties.
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Maine Voices: Coyotes protect songbirds, so let’s protect them
We need reasonable limits on the hunting of an animal that safeguards the declining bird population from cat predation.
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Maine Voices: 20 years ago, Sanford, Springvale residents gave warm sendoff to departing troops
And the same good cheer greeted the soldiers of the ‘3rd Herd’ when we returned after more than a year away from our families, friends and community.
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Maine Voices: I am grateful to you, Jimmy Carter, for being my role model
You have lived your ideals and made a real difference in the world, holding on to hope even as some of your biggest accomplishments have been dismantled.
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Maine Voices: South Portland’s shipyard waterfront should be vividly reimagined
The towers and parking lots of the proposed Yard South development do not belong next to Bug Light. What does? The sky’s the limit.
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Maine Voices: When the going gets tough, summon the solutions attitude
Prepare to act, then launch – no matter how long the odds of success. It worked for the Patriots in the 2017 Super Bowl (and for the cornstalk in the petunia patch).
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Maine Voices: Another challenge of climate change – registering its urgency while living our lives
It’s a difficult balance but one we must try to achieve, considering that we’re at the most life-threatening moment in history.