According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 83 bias-motivated crimes in Maine last year, the most since 2008.
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Rep. Jared Golden: Health care reform just got harder
By using budget reconciliation to enact COVID relief in 2021, Democrats have set up a fight with Republicans over expiring subsidies in 2023.
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Commentary: Vaccine passports don’t have to work to be effective
The United States should develop a system to verify inoculations but not necessarily use it.
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Angus King: $1.9 trillion COVID bill meets the moment
This legislation gets help to the people who need it most, including 10,000 Maine children who will be lifted from poverty.
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Maine Voices: COVID has given us a world without dancing
People have always been able to dance during times of trouble. But that outlet is shut down for now.
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Column: Shine is wearing off for Disney devotee
“I’m talking about the increasing monopoly it has on the entertainment industry and, by extension, American culture.”
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Finally, a GMO to tempt the Whole Foods crowd
These days everything from cookies to orange juice carry labels boasting that it’s GMO free — a marketing ploy that assumes consumers still hate, fear or at least disapprove of genetically modified organisms despite reassurances from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. While science journalists have bemoaned this as irrational fear, people might […]
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Welcome to our unhappy new year
WASHINGTON — As we enter 2019, the question that looms over America is simple: Can we govern? The answer is no. Unless this changes — truly a long shot — the new year may be as disappointing as the old. Our society seems handcuffed by unsolvable problems: large and persistent budget deficits; global warming; uncontrolled […]
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Elizabeth Warren’s strength as candidate has slipped
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a fiery populist on the left, announced she is forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential run. Her earnest plea for working people and her attack on the rich and powerful provide a stark contrast both to President Donald Trump’s right-wing economic agenda and to more centrist Democrats. (“Billionaires and […]
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Trump should chill about stock market
Donald Trump may watch the stock market more closely than any day trader. For a president who underlined the increasing importance of working-class whites to the GOP coalition and who trampled so much bipartisan economic orthodoxy during the campaign, to be so overtly obsessed with the stock market is a strange disconnect. In fact, no […]