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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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Bipartisan budget invests in Maine’s future
Lawmakers on Wednesday should give the $8.5 billion two-year spending plan the votes it needs to pass into law immediately.
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Commentary: Fund public transit, not more roads
We should stop subsidizing sprawl and spend those savings on our resource-starved mass transit systems.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Close youth detention center Long Creek the right way
Gov. Mills was right to veto a bill that adds unnecessary risk to the plan to close Maine’s only youth prison.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Seeing Maine through other eyes
The people who visit every year remind us what a special place our state really is.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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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Jim Fossel: Senators, not Senate rules, make laws
Liberals complain about the filibuster, but repealing it would likely have little impact on the development of policy.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Worker thanks Sen. Collins for shipyard support
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard needs federal support for infrastructure improvemnts.