Supporters of a Maine bill targeting student pronoun changes need to realize that a little respect for young people would go a very long way.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Restoring original Maine flag is the right idea – just maybe not right now
Symbols matter, and a flag itself should be a symbol of unity.
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Our View: Give young psychiatric patients somewhere to go
Legislating for new mental health facilities may not sit well with everyone. We should be far more uncomfortable with the alternative: leaving vulnerable young Mainers hanging in the balance.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Bill targeting preferred pronoun use in schools will have impact outside the classroom
Who is L.D. 678 for? Who is being protected? Whose rights are being upheld? Moreover, whose are not?
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine’s girls and nonbinary youth deserve to be listened to
Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Maine made me the scientist I am today
An opportunity to learn and work alongside professional ocean researchers as a high school junior, without any cost to my family, changed my life for the better.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: ‘Obscene’ content bill does not have child protection at its heart
This bill would criminalize librarianship and subject our communities to costly lawsuits over … well, you name it.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: The Willow Project is a carbon bomb. Biden just lit the match
The Willow Project may seem far-removed from our two Portlands. The reality is it has grave consequences for the ocean, which many Mainers and Oregonians rely on.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Don’t let incompetent bank executives derail the Fed’s inflation battle
The blame ought to be placed where it belongs: The bank’s leaders blew it.
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Commentary: Fearmongering diverts attention from real threats of gender oppression
Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said gender equality worldwide is now 300 years away and “vanishing before our eyes.”