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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Our View: Minimum wage boost would help teen fathers
Public discussion of teenage parenthood often leaves teenage fathers on the sidelines. Policymaking, research, media coverage and services generally focus on young mothers and the problems they face as they negotiate both adolescence and child-rearing. Young fathers, meanwhile, are stigmatized as self-centered, irresponsible and unconcerned with their children's needs.
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PublishedJune 18, 2013
Our View: Corporations win, Maine people lose under DEP regime
Corporations can hire lobbyists to fight for them and influence public policy.
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PublishedJune 18, 2013
Corporations win, Maine people lose under DEP chief
Corporations can hire lobbyists to fight for them and influence public policy.
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PublishedJune 16, 2013
OUR VIEW: No one likes budget, but it’s the best we’re getting
Gov. Paul LePage is clear -- he hates the bipartisan budget that is headed his way, thanks to strong votes in the House and Senate.
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PublishedJune 14, 2013
Lawmakers must show courage on domestic violence
Maine is one of the country's safest places to live -- one of the five most crime-free in the United States, in fact.
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PublishedJune 13, 2013
Maine lawmakers get second chance to do right thing
Maine lawmakers will get one more chance to do the right thing when it comes to providing health care to people in need.
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PublishedJune 12, 2013
Lawmakers should back dental care bill
Rural areas with no dentists would benefit from a new kind of provider.
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PublishedJune 11, 2013
Data mining probe should have started seven years ago
We are still waiting for answers seven years after Maine privacy advocates asked the questions.
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PublishedJune 9, 2013
Appropriators should act boldly to fix tax code
By the usual standards, members of the Appropriations Committee did a good job last week. They have come up with a balanced budget proposal that reverses some of the worst proposed cuts in Gov. LePage's spending plan, raising revenue from temporary increases to the sales tax and meals-and-lodging tax and protecting the state's property tax relief programs.
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PublishedJune 8, 2013
IRS scrutiny of groups proves to be Obama’s worst scandal
The full impact of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of hundreds of conservative groups' applications for nonprofit status for delay or rejection was provided this week in congressional testimony by the leader of one of those groups, Becky Gerritson, of Wetumpka, Ala., whose voice cracked as she said:
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