Fear of basic compromise means even the most reasonable of legislation on firearms stands little chance in Maine.
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Maine Voices: We need to continue uncovering hidden histories, not ignoring them
Any historical material that illuminates the past and present is valuable, even if – especially if – it tells an uncomfortable story.
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Commentary: Maine’s alternative utility market experiment has been a failure
AARP Maine supports the Office of the Public Advocate’s call to repeal the program that allows retail electricity marketers to compete for residential customers.
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Peter Roff: Are the regulatory burdens we place on businesses worth it?
It’s budget time again – and the one President Joe Biden proposed is a beaut! Biden’s budget proposal is the kind of thing only a progressive could get enthused about it. It grows the executive branch’s regulatory power, takes total yearly spending to nearly $10 trillion by 2033 (up from just over $6 billion now, […]
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John L. Micek: She lost her grandson to gun violence
There is no silence like the silence of a house where a child once was. Marge LaRue should know. Last fall, her grandson, Nicolas Elizalde, was shot and killed outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. It came just after the end of a junior varsity football scrimmage between players from Roxborough, Northeast Boys High School, and Boys Latin Charter School. Nick was just 14 years […]
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Commentary: If the U.S. wishes to halt flow of asylum seekers, it must make an effort to prevent war
Once war starts, very few countries have been able to quickly recover. President Biden’s latest immigration proposals seem to ignore that fact.
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Clarence Page: Equal justice, even for Donald Trump and other suspects
Trump’s indictment reminds many of the days when he was less enthralled by the presumption of innocence than he is now – when he desperately needs it.
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Maine Voices: Greatness in women’s basketball? It’s nothing new
Women athletes have been dazzling on the court for over a hundred years.
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Danny Tyree: Planning a post-Easter hiatus?
Right now, the land echoes with songs such as “Power in the Blood” and “Because He Lives,” but past performance assures me that the ditty waiting in the wings is (apologies to Alice Cooper) “God’s Out For Summer.” Yes, countless people (whether unchurched or nominally religious) are counting down the days until Easter goes hopping […]
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Dick Polman: ‘How is this still happening? How are our children still dying?’
Put your hands together for gun reform activist Ashbey Beasley, an anguished mom who showed up uninvited on Fox News the other day. She stormed within camera range and raged common sense to the viewers who’d probably tuned in for the usual brain-dead propaganda. She and her son had survived last summer’s massacre in Highland […]