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Maine Voices: Collaboration in wildfire management – lessons from Quebec for Maine
Maine must continue prioritizing wildfire preparedness, seeking and strengthening collaboration, investing in advanced equipment and training, and implementing comprehensive mitigation measures.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Editorial: Should we name heat waves? It’s worth a try to save lives
Not a lot of people know about one of California’s worst disasters in the last few decades, one that overwhelmed hospitals, sent bodies piling up in coroner’s offices and was deadlier than the 1994 Northridge earthquake or the 2018 Camp fire. That’s what happened when a severe heat wave smothered California in July 2006, killing […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Next Farm Bill should bolster local food systems
At a hearing last week in Freeport, Maine farmers said they need support dealing with a number of crises.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Why do I hoard more books than I could possibly read? An investigation
Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that book sales for the first half of the year are down once again, continuing a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic. As usual, I seem to be out of step. After a few years of joining the Kindle cult, I am back to my old bibliophile ways of buying […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Douglas Rooks: A world on fire meets Congress
Our leaders are not acting to address the greatest threat to life on Earth.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Are heat pump consumers getting the benefit of federal, state incentive programs?
While I don’t begrudge installers getting a share of the opportunity created by both strong demand and government support of heat pumping technology, rebates are for consumers.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Government-owned electrical systems not as perfect as Pine Tree Power’s supporters want us to believe
We all know the saying ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease.’ I worked at an electric utility owned and operated by municipal government in the Pacific Northwest, and in my experience, the squeaky wheels were the people with political connections.
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Our View: Hate groups tear at the seams of our country
White supremacists, and the politicians that have pulled them into the mainstream, are a growing threat.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Medical debt is making Americans angry. Doctors and hospitals ignore this at their peril.
For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to […]