Arizona is leading the way with a voucher-style universal school choice program. Maine can do the same.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
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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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Welcome Corps a welcome development
The new State Department program should help us to maximize our most precious resource: goodwill.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Portland diocese displays a brazen lack of empathy
Attempts to block legal recourse for people in pain and anguish amount to retraumatizing secondary abuse.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Custody and care of unaccompanied minors must be a priority of our state
Although we know that Maine DHHS is struggling with funding and staffing, the refusal to take custody of at-risk youths is negligent, unacceptable – and easily solved.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Who tells the church what it must do in order to be forgiven?
I hope survivors sue the collar off the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland and others.