Public funding, a long history of female role models and groups that recruit candidates all play a part.
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Maine Voices: Maine history shows evolution in relationship between labor, feminism
Shifts in thinking on both sides helped revive the ERA years after the Woman’s Party worked to defeat workplace protections for Maine women and children.
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Maine Voices: Maine farms have key role to play in combating climate change
Forward-thinking farmland protection and farming practices can help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Maine Voices: To protect public health, end non-medical vaccine opt-outs
Legislation making immunizations a condition of starting school will help keep Maine children and their neighbors safe.
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Maine Voices: Heed Maine history’s warning on today’s CMP transmission deal
The utility should fulfill the benefits that it promises up front.
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Maine Voices: Mainers should know how the Pentagon is spending their tax dollars
Sen. Angus King should keep up the pressure to address inconsistencies revealed by the agency’s first-ever audit.
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Maine Voices: Hiking income-tax rates won’t solve Maine’s problems
Contrary to a recent Greg Kesich column, criticism of levies on high earners isn’t what’s keeping Maine from funding all of its needs.
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Maine Voices: Sen. Collins should prioritize Mainers’ needs, advocate for $15 minimum wage
A third of our workforce would benefit from a base-pay hike – and so would the businesses where these workers would spend money.
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Maine Voices: Other states have learned that ‘red-flag’ laws can save lives
Maine should have a process to temporarily take guns from someone in a mental health crisis.
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Maine Voices: Loss of our state’s native landscape should be of growing concern
To ensure that this place still looks and feels like home, hybrid plantings must be balanced with native ones.