If we want to understand how COVID has influenced our world, we should study the impact of early disease outbreaks in classical Greece.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s child welfare problems can be solved
But it’s important that policy-makers learn the right message from recent tragedies.
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Maine Voices: What Americans have in common is our differences
We need to reject religious or civil absolutism that claims there is only one kind of American.
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Maine Voices: Portland-Lewiston rail would be an environmental and economic game changer
The Maine Department of Transportation has had a good plan for doing so since 2011, but has always put road projects first.
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Maine Voices: Protecting children from abuse is everybody’s job
In almost every horrific case, outsiders saw something but they may not have recognized it as abuse and never reported it.
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Maine Voices: The Maine reason we must act on climate, enact carbon cashback
Sens. Collins and King could be pivotal in the best chance for meaningful climate legislation in over a decade.
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Maine Voices: What Netflix’s ‘The Chair’ teaches us about voice, representation
The show about a fictional university makes clear how much Maine’s real-life institutions will benefit from uplifting the voices of students and marginalized groups.
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Maine Voices: Still cynical about changes in child care workforce – please prove me wrong
Early childhood education won’t be high-quality, affordable and well compensated until and unless it is part of the common good, just like public school.
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Maine Voices: Opening my mind and my palate has delicious results
A taste of mulberries in a New York botanical garden introduces a Portland resident to the idea of growing them at home.
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Maine Voices: Vaccine mandate for health care workers doesn’t go far enough
The governor’s order is a step in the right direction but it’s still too easy to avoid.