The political events President Cyril Ramaphosa should be taking into account right now unfolded here in the U.S. in 1986.
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Maine Voices: Ignoring need for caution, mining bill moving at speed of industry
The environment and human health are at risk under an amendment to L.D. 1363. It would allow the developer of a mineral deposit – like Plumbago North – to proceed under much-looser quarry rules.
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Maine Voices: Packing up in preparation for the next school year
Students leave in June, carrying all they’ve experienced and learned into a new neighborhood called September.
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Maine Voices: Don’t fall for current MAGA hysteria over the national debt
No other nation has as reliably paid its debts as the United States, and the U.S. has more than enough income to support its debt.
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Maine Voices: Long-term home health care can be a gift to nurses as well as clients
I may visit weekly or I may visit monthly, but I stay an hour and I’ll be back soon.
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Maine Voices: Doing our part to keep the alewife alive
A sixth-grader learns how the population is protected by the structures that the fish use to travel up Maine’s rivers each year to spawn in freshwater.
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Maine Voices: State slowly, steadily working with Wabanaki tribes to heal historical wrongs
As our leaders return to the table of discussion again, we hope for forbearance, vision and, most of all, patience.
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Maine Voices: Remembering the power of remembrance in Normandy
My uncle and thousands of others fought for liberty and freedom for all, bedrock principles we take too much for granted in our daily lives.
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Maine Voices: Older Mainers are primed and ready to go
A tow and a ticket had me, at nearly 70, fearing for my faculties. Then I learned about ‘positive aging.’
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Maine Voices: The guaranteed ‘best deal ever’ – the problem with public higher education promises
New programs that are meant to increase access to higher education actually hamper it by undercutting the very institutions that serve most students.