The Bipartisan Background Checks Act is a common-sense way to make sure that people legally banned from owning firearms won’t get their hands on them.
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Maine Voices: I don’t like CMP. But I don’t support a publicly owned Maine utility.
More aggressive enforcement by the PUC is a better way to ensure the utility is prepared for the dramatic demands on the grid we’re going to face.
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Maine Voices: Citizenship for Dreamers is an overdue immigration reform
Nine years since the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, 700,000 of our neighbors have uncertain status under the law.
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Maine Voices: Young Mainers will be inheriting the grid – we would like to own it
If we’re going to increasingly rely on electricity for our basic needs in the future, consumer ownership, not investor ownership, is the way to go.
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Maine Voices: Redevelopment efforts firmly on path to realizing vision for former Brunswick Navy base
Brunswick Landing is becoming the bustling live, work and play community envisioned in the Reuse Master Plan, and the Topsham Commerce Park is fully developed.
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Maine Voices: Dismantling white supremacy requires a good mirror
Telling a person of color that the work of eliminating racial injustice is essentially complete is a tactic used to oppress minority populations.
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Maine Voices: Water-based nonprofits need space on Portland’s eastern waterfront
A commitment to community water access should help shape a proposal to create a harborfront park.
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Maine Voices: The Tulsa Race Massacre is America’s own Tiananmen Square
We too have buried both bodies and the truth. Only when we admit our past can we stand with the victims of other nations.
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Maine Voices: Ambivalence persists about roles, rights of Mainers with disabilities
Two recent stories show we’re undermining our pledges of inclusion by perpetuating a history rife with prejudice and bias.
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Maine Voices: Let voters decide public power question
Investor-owned utilities have proven that they can sow doubt, but they haven’t shown they can deliver affordable and reliable power.