Step 1: Press Maine legislators to include cats in our animal trespass laws. Step 2: Keep your pets inside. Step 3: Stop feeding feral felines.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Real global leadership demands more of the U.S.
What does it say about us that we won’t join the International Criminal Court?
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ‘One-stop shop’ for new residents has untold potential
Whether or not Maine gets the federal waiver on asylum seeker work authorization it desires, the state must be ready and waiting for it.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Gov. Mills remains committed to progress with tribal nations
The Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act was a thorough and significant breakthrough. That isn’t to to say, 40 years later, that it should not be changed.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Banks must be forced to keep their word on climate change
We have to sustain pressure on the major banks that continue to finance fossil fuel production – and maintain Maine’s focus on the climate crisis.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Civil legal aid is falling short, hurting all of us
When Mainers can’t access programs and services designed to help them, whole communities suffer.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Time for Nordic Aquafarms to pull out of Belfast
Its controversial salmon farm has divided the community for over five years, is mired in legal troubles and is simply in the wrong place.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Can DeSantis go too far? Not for Florida. Maybe for America
Voters down here seem to crave his culture wars. I don’t believe the same can be said for the rest of the country.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The humble Farmer: Consider the canny crow, a regular visitor to my apple orchard
Because several of them live within calling distance in the woods behind my back pasture, I’ve had an opportunity to study crows up close and personal.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: A liberal case for Israel
The narrative that this Middle East democracy is self-evidently the oppressor of Palestinian-Israelis ignores much of history and present reality.