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Opinion

Published
January 14, 2021

Maine Democratic leaders: Mainers deserve a COVID-19 Patient Bill of Rights

This bill would require all Maine health insurers to cover screenings, testing and immunizations even after the state of emergency ends.
Published
January 14, 2021

Our View: Supreme Court hints it favors state abortion limits

But Maine lawmakers should not enter into futile debates on this emotional issue.
Published
January 14, 2021

Commentary: The Republican paralysis

Here’s why the GOP can’t protect the country right now.
Published
January 13, 2021

Maine Voices: Some Republicans finally get it about Trump

But why did it take an insurrection to get them to realize how dangerous this president is.
Published
January 12, 2021

Commentary: Mob riots aren’t our only crisis. Jobs are evaporating while COVID deaths skyrocket

The country is sliding in more ways than one, and we can’t afford to ignore it.

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Published
January 12, 2021

Our View: Collins should challenge Trump’s lies

Mainers who voted for Donald Trump need to hear unequivocally from the whole congressional delegation that the 2020 election was aboveboard.
Published
January 12, 2021

Maine Voices: Seeing the immune-suppressed in the COVID pandemic

For people with invisible illnesses like Crohn’s disease to become a priority when vaccines are allocated, our stories need to be told.
Published
January 11, 2021

Maine Voices: U.S. will be measured by its response to Jan. 6, 2021

In whipping up a crowd of supporters to storm the Capitol, Donald Trump violated one of his most sacred constitutional duties.
Published
January 10, 2021

Our View: Small-business growth is the recession’s cure

The job loss in 2020 was worse than any recession in the last 50 years and will take extraordinary action to bring jobs back.
Published
January 10, 2021

Maine Voices: Wounds of Trump years run deeper than politics. Are we ready to heal?

The United States of America still has to reckon with the darkest eras of its past and to inclusively and equitably reconstruct what America can and ought to be.