The cap of a 5% increase on a vacant unit means that landlords have no choice at the end of a lease term but to increase the rent on long-term tenants.
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Maine Voices: Learned helplessness won’t stop gun slaughter
Bills before the Maine Legislature would keep firearms out of criminals’ hands, help reduce the rate of gun suicides and ban devices that turn guns into automatic weapons.
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Elwood Watson: Tina Turner was simply the best
Tina Turner, who died last month, was a pioneer and an artist who personified the word innovative. Like her contemporary, Little Richard, Tina Turner brought an uncompromised strand of Black Southern music, the sound of the Chitlin’ Circuit itself, into the lives of teenagers and adults around the globe. She garnered appeal across racial boundaries […]
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Commentary: Maine voters deserve respect from their secretary of state
By sending a targeted mailing directed at all 6,456 Maine residents who had recently registered as No Labels voters, Shenna Bellows acted in a way that intimidated thousands of Maine voters.
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Peter Roff: ‘Woke’ investing may threaten your retirement security
More than a few economists predicted a period of record economic growth would follow the end of the lockdowns associated with the pandemic. It didn’t happen. What America got instead was a period of prolonged, rapidly rising inflation that devalued wages and retirement savings. Now, as USA Today recently pointed out, more and more older […]
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Commentary: The Legislature must limit future electric rate increases
Older Mainers stand to gain if our legislators reform the solar payment law now.
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Maine Voices: Harmful effects of coal pile pollution threaten Portland’s health
How much are we willing to pay for a coal pile in our city, and why should we have to pay anything?
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Clarence Page: Congress finds virtue in compromise – at last
Lessons of the debt ceiling debate: Congress should not be encouraged to hold the rest of the government hostage to get the legislation they want.
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Michael Reagan: Nixon + Congress = $32 trillion in debt
Context. Perspective. Background. It’s not news to anyone that the major media consistently fail to provide any of those things when covering the burning political issues of the moment. Take, for example, the compromise the House of Representatives and the White House just made to settle the federal budget and debt-ceiling crisis. We know from […]
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Dick Polman: We should feel good about sane adults reaching across the aisle
Put your hands together for sane mature bipartisan centrist adulthood. It’s a whole lot better than apocalyptic bluster. When something good happens in Washington, we should pause to savor it. Case in point is the debt ceiling deal, forged by political foes Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy, to safeguard the American economy and the global […]