Random terminations only demoralize employees and weaken agencies.
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Opinion: Maine’s proposed cigarette tax hike has hidden costs
The state’s retailers will feel the pinch if smokers choose to take advantage of the lower rate in New Hampshire.
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Cal Thomas: Reparations are a bad idea
Inspiration, followed by motivation and a considerable amount of perspiration changed the lives of many former slaves and their descendants. These qualities have a better record of improving lives than reparations ever could.
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Clarence Page: Let facts get in the way of performative politics
Democrats missed their opportunity to make a serious statement at President Trump’s State of the Union address.
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Opinion: It’s time to free Maine’s schoolkids from their screens
A state-level bill proposes a pilot program for a phone-free, tablet-free school day. You don’t have to be an expert to know this is right.
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Opinion: Susan Collins should have protected the CFPB
The Trump administration is doing the bidding of big banks. Sen. Collins’ focus must be on consumers in Maine.
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Clarence Page: Don’t let ‘reverse discrimination’ reverse our national progress
There’s nothing simple about our racial, gender and other conflicts, but finding solutions together despite our petty differences has served us well in the past and it still can work again, if we can build faith in each other.
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Rich Lowry: Yes to English as the official language
No language has ever been as ubiquitous, and the U.S. government is now giving it its official due.
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Susan Estrich: The Democrats looked silly
The Democratic Party that I grew up with was the party of working-class Americans who play by the rules and expect government to work for them. We lost those voters, and we need to get them back. Pink suits won’t do it.
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Austin Bay: Ukraine’s collision of truths
Ukraine has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, dead and wounded. Its military faces manpower shortages. Frankly, brave Ukraine confronts military and economic exhaustion.