We lose an entire kindergarten classroom a week to gun violence. When are we going to put an end to it?
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Maine Voices: Lack of oversight in Portland has led to a city without direction
We’re in urgent need of real leadership, real coordination and real deadlines. I’m counting on elected officials to push past the power struggles.
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Maine Voices: Portland’s attitude toward school district has been thankless
Instead of pointing fingers at Portland Public Schools, the city needs to look in the mirror.
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Maine Voices: Portland Museum of Art’s new wing must not make old mistakes
Not everybody regularly gets inside the museum; how it looks from the outside matters.
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Maine Voices: Our community radio stations should be treasured
If you ask me, the radio star is alive and well in our state. Two examples: WERU and WMPG.
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Maine Voices: Debate over Bowdoin fields, forever chemicals has lost its way
As neighbors raise objections, the relevant acronym isn’t PFAS – it’s NIMBY.
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Maine Voices: Police-worn body cameras can restore faith in criminal justice
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown by a police officer resulted in calls for mandatory use of body cameras. Momentum has since dropped off. Why?
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Maine Voices: Portland Museum of Art design finalists miss the mark
Henry Cobb’s 1983 Payson Wing deserves more respect and attention from the architects vying to reimagine the PMA.
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Maine Voices: Whether or not it’s protected by the First Amendment, racist is as racist does
Whatever its root, the proliferation of racist rhetoric helps to normalize it, intensifying racist violence and the oppression of minorities.
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Maine Voices: The question of abortion should be a moot point
You do as you believe, I do as I believe.