It’s not that attorneys don’t want to represent low-income clients – it’s that we’ve made it impossible for each other to do so.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Half-baked tax relief plan needed more time
In attempting to eliminate older Mainers’ property tax burden, we’ve created a burden of a different kind.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Let’s tell elected officials we value, expect universal medical care
Billions of dollars in medical bills have been paid via crowdsourcing platforms like GoFundMe. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Ukrainian refugee experience echoes my forebears’ journey
My family were given no choice but to leave Poland during World War I. Like legions of Polish refugees at the time, they eventually built good lives for themselves in Portland.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Beware the bond-funded Maine job initiative
Both voters and politicians act as if bonds are piles of free money flowing from rainbows. Would that it were the case.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Why I keep coming back to a town in Oxford County
Year in, year out, I take a sentimental journey to and throughout Rumford, where I once was surrounded by family.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: No longer just a crisis but an indefensible failure
The more we neglect legal representation for people who can’t pay for it, the more painful the cost – social and financial – to the state of Maine.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: My rescue dog, myself
My experience with Janey serves as proof that even the weird, scared and temperamental strays are worth a chance.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: There’s no good reason to resent education loan forgiveness
I say this as somebody with almost a quarter of a million dollars in student debt – which I plan to pay back.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Youth vote will be critical to our climate response
As a scientist, I’d rather be working on graphs and describing solutions to the climate crisis. But upcoming elections matter.