Maine voices
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2023
Maine Voices: Free community college comes with upsides and downsides
While more opportunity, more education and more support for underfunded institutions are good things, community colleges and other institutions must prepare for costs and other consequences.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2023
Maine Voices: Weathering the ice storm of ’98 as CMP spokesman
The strongest memory I have from those cold, exhausting days was the kindness of neighbors helping each other and utility crews working long hours in unbearable conditions to restore power.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
Maine Voices: My patients need paid family and medical leave – and so do you
The current system of unpaid leave is damaging and stressful for both the patients seeking care and the people responsible for providing that care.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2023
Maine Voices: It’s Mother Nature’s world – we’re just living in it
As we reflect on memories of the ice storm of 1998, we watch the current roller-coaster weather leave our immediate surroundings in utter chaos.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2023
Maine Voices: Soaring tower development all wrong for South Portland
It defies reason that our city would consider corrupting its shipyard zoning to allow 180-foot residential towers near our harbor shore.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2023
Maine Voices: As the West shrugs, the world’s first Christians are being starved, ethnically cleansed
The U.S. and the EU must take a stronger stance on Azerbaijan’s brutal blockade of 120,000 civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh, or else the second Armenian Genocide is on our doorstep.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2023
‘The storm nurtured a community spirit in Readfield’
Patty Stanton remembers melting snow to flush toilets and volunteering with the Lions Club at her local school.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2023
‘For the first time in my life, I had no idea where I would be sleeping that night’
Kathy MacLeod Hooke remembers staying over at a motel, at her workplace and in the home of a kind older couple.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2023
‘Hellish cannon-like crashing sounds occurred night after night’
Ray Wilson remembers the tall, thin birch trees suffering worst.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2023
‘How can the Maine Turnpike be closed?‘
Bill Jeffrey remembers treacherous driving, helping neighbors and a couple of miraculous pies from Pat‘s Pizza in Orono.
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