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.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Jim Fossel: Biden budget beggars belief
If a spoiled child concocted a federal budget proposal, it’d look a lot like the one Biden just unveiled.
Commentary: Who lived here until Europe showed up on the shore?
I walk the land in Westbrook and think about all that colonizers attempted to eliminate – and how little evidence of that is on display.