Ideally, your vote reflects your beliefs, and your candidate will do what you hope and expect. It’s regrettable, then, that we often don’t know what we’re getting.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Criticism of Maine State Chamber of Commerce on PFAS undeserved
An extension of the PFAS reporting deadline will have no impact on the original intent of the legislation.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Where is the serious discussion and reasonable compromise?
We are increasingly incapable of respecting the right to disagree. That has grave consequences for democracy.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: A little help on parsing inflation from New Hampshire’s Sununu
What we’re confronting today is primarily global; not just fueled but also fired up by the supply chain shutdown during the worst of the pandemic.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Why don’t we try listening to our anxiety?
Mental health experts often tell us to “breathe through” things. Faced with the terror and grief of today, that encouragement is misguided.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale
Let’s pull together for an endangered species that, as you may have noticed in recent weeks, has no constituency.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Don’t blame people for trying to take housing into their own hands
Portland’s ballot questions on short-term rentals and tenant protections didn’t fall from the sky.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Opioid epidemic’s undue burden on rural Maine requires our full attention
Investment in evidence-based approaches can help guide our rural communities out of crisis.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: So you can’t fight inflation. How about not adding to it?
When it comes to tempering the cost of living, President Biden could have done a whole lot more by doing a whole lot less.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: If we’re serious about moving to clean energy, Maine needs Pine Tree Power
Thanks to our natural resources and our tradition of self-reliance, Maine could become a regional clean energy powerhouse. The transition must work for everyone.