A well-timed phone call gave us a transformative experience.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
The Maine Millennial: We have to acknowledge hard truths about pregnancy
Supporting a ban on abortion at an arbitrary gestational age means forcing women to give birth to babies they will have to watch die.
Maine Voices: January lays bare the greatest conspiracy of them all
Sure, the month is drawing to a close. But we can’t get complacent.
Commentary: Let’s let Maine parents decide how to spend on education
Arizona is leading the way with a voucher-style universal school choice program. Maine can do the same.
Maine Voices: We need more grid capacity – and we need it now
Grid-enhancing technologies are already in place and proven in regional transmission systems across the U.S. and Europe. Maine must be next.
Our View: At least one of the answers is blowing in the wind
A new bill that promises to stimulate the development of offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine strikes all the right notes.
Maine Voices: Is the Doomsday Clock about to move closer to midnight?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ clock was first set at the start of the Cold War. On Tuesday, we’ll find out how much closer the world is to self-destruction in 2023.
Our View: Welcome Corps a welcome development
The new State Department program should help us to maximize our most precious resource: goodwill.
Commentary: Parents seeking book bans want control – to a point
They’ll deny professional educators their decision-making responsibility in this one respect. Anything after that would be inconvenient.
Maine Voices: Grief seems to be having a public comeback. Good.
We owe it to ourselves to remember that “prolonged” grief is the normal result of deeply felt love.