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The cost of Susan Collins outweighs the benefit | Letter

How many federal dollars does it take to offset the rollback of constitutionally guaranteed rights of more than a half century? How many federal dollars is sufficient to offset the cost of previously defeated diseases like polio and measles to return to Maine families? How about the cost to Mainers of legally dubious tariffs or […]

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