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• Insect surge could be sign of changing climate

  Jun 17
  Maybe you've noticed an unusually large number of ticks on your dog. Or maybe you got an itchy rash that seemed to come out of nowhere. Perhaps ...
  

• Time to break the silence about domestic abuse

  By The Republican ... - Jun 03
  For the month of June, The Republican Journal is lending the front windows of its office to Finding Our Voices' exhibit, "Waldo County Breaks the ...
  

• Time for Maine to pay its fair share for schools

  May 20
  By now, the Maine children who started kindergarten in the fall of 2004 are all grown up. Some of them are completing a four-year enlistment in ...
  

• Return of high school sports contains lessons for all

  Apr 29
  They say hope springs eternal, and nowhere is that truer than the beginning of the high school sports season — particularly in Maine, and particula...
  

• Government will not police itself

  Apr 08
  Here we go again. Every few years we end up with a bill before the Legislature aimed at getting rid of requirements for government to post notices ...
  

• Let SNAP recipients buy toilet paper and toothpaste

  By The Republican ... - Mar 11
  Imagine yourself in the grocery store. You visit the produce section, the canned foods, dairy and so forth. Then you head for the toilet paper ...
  

• Use lessons from COVID to combat overdose crisis

  Feb 25
  Public health officials are finally delivering some hopeful news about the coronavirus pandemic in Maine, which has taken 654 lives. The weekly ...
  

• Racial impact should be part of legislative process

  Feb 11
  Like the U.S. Constitution, the Maine Constitution promises that we are all equal under the law, regardless of our race, religion or tribal ...
  

• Citizens right to reject pot moratorium

  By The Republican ... - Jan 21
  We applaud the decision by the citizens of Thorndike at their special town meeting Jan. 16 to reject a proposed six-month moratorium on adult-use ...
  

• If we got under your skin this year, it means we're doing our ...

  By The Republican ... - Jan 07
  Lately, we figure we must be doing something right with the way we cover the news in Belfast and Waldo County. We regularly have people from very ...
  

• Time to curb cash bail

  Jun 10
  Being poor is expensive. Driving an old clunker means frequent trips to the mechanic. Delayed medical care can prove both pricey and life-threateni...
  

• Collins should support independent look into Jan. 6 ...

  May 27
  Republican leaders in Congress are doing everything in their power to block the creation of an independent commission that would get to the bottom ...
  

• State should prepare now for 988 Lifeline access

  By The Republican ... - May 13
  May is Mental Health Month, and if any issue deserves to be highlighted by such a designation, mental health is surely one. While there are many ...
  

• Maine should remain a leader in state election practices

  Apr 15
  In Maine, we take the right to vote seriously. Whether it's an annual town meeting or a presidential election, Mainers have a time-honored ...
  

• Federal funding for broadband can help bridge internet gap

  Mar 25
  The 20th century came late to rural America. Decades after American cities had been wired for electricity, farm wives pumped water from their ...
  

• Proposed lobster industry changes need more proof

  Mar 04
  Environmentalists and the lobster industry have rarely agreed on anything related to the effort to save the North Atlantic right whale. So when ...
  

• Waldo County GOP on the wrong side of history

  By The Republican ... - Feb 18
  In an apparent frenzy of devotion to former President Donald Trump, Republican committees and politicians across the United States have lately ...
  

• Councilor's disregard for law deserves censure

  By The Republican ... - Feb 04
  We were sorry this week to see Belfast City Councilor Mike Hurley not only breaking the city's fireworks ordinance and using mild profanity in a ...
  

• Collins should challenge Trump’s lies

  Jan 14
  It's important to remember that the assault on the Capitol last week was fueled by lies. Thanks to an all-out propaganda war by President Trump ...
  

• Consistent messaging vital for vaccine rollout

  Dec 24
  There is a saying in computer science: Garbage in, garbage out. In short, it means that if your input is lousy, your output will be, too. You've ...