Two months after Minutemen routed English troops, the six O’Briens seized three invading vessels in ‘the Lexington of the Sea.’
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Maine Voices: Intercity passenger rail could solve many of Maine’s problems
The state should not turn rail corridors into recreational trails and miss a historic opportunity.
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Maine Voices: More data needed on hospitalizations of youths in crisis
A hospital emergency department can be a trap for a teenager with no appropriate options.
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Maine Voices: It’s time for Maine children to go back to school
Onerous state requirements are making full-time public K-12 education impossible and placing a heavy burden on our kids.
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Maine Voices: To save lives in Maine, gun safety advocates have to show up in Augusta
The Show Up Network (SUN) for Gun Safety is focused solely on turning Mainers out on this issue so that our voice will be heard.
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Maine Voices: Lowering voting age to 16 will give more stakeholders a say in our democracy
Today’s young people are expected to fix past generations’ mistakes, yet we don’t have the basic right to cast a ballot. L.D. 706 would change that.
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Maine Voices: Maine has history of withholding treatment from inmates. COVID is no exception
As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’
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Maine Voices: Essential workers have earned the hazard pay Portland voters approved
We are proud to be keeping local people fed and healthy, but we shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the pandemic.
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Maine Voices: I’m a longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center, and I don’t support a union
Why would we pay dues that would give us benefits we already have and make the patient a secondary consideration?
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Maine Voices: In my last year of teaching, I ‘lost’ a student
The children most at risk before COVID are affected even more now. If you know of a child who is not engaged in school, please speak up.