Women and girls today deserve to have their own quality sports programs.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Opinion: We’re taking ranked-choice voting national for presidential elections
If all states had RCV, there would be no worries that a third-party candidate could tip a state — and thus the White House — against popular will.
Rep. Chellie Pingree: Let asylum seekers work
The federal government is standing in the way of a perfect marriage between willing workers and employers eager to hire.
Commentary: Trump would sell your grandkid’s future for $1 billion
Sometimes the movies that stay with you for decades aren’t the good ones, but the ones with an unforgettable ad or an utterly inane premise. That last category includes maybe the worst movie of Robert Redford’s long and distinguished acting career, 1993′s Indecent Proposal, in which a beautiful and desperately cash-strapped young wife (Demi Moore) […]
The Maine Millennial: There’s more than one way to make a town safe
When we focus on crime and policing to the exclusion of other investment, we let ourselves down.
Commentary: Parents must end the teachers unions’ stranglehold on education
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court took a historic step toward ending injustice with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Politicians once stood in the schoolhouse door as a barrier to keep minorities out. The new civil rights challenge is to break through the barrier that’s trapping minority children in […]
Hilary Koch: A simple piece of fan mail shows that small gestures really matter
Something to keep in mind: They won’t remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel.
Jim Fossel: Budget games are an insult to Mainers
It’s undemocratic, secretive and cowardly to simply ignore legislation; that’s not the sort of government we deserve.
Opinion: Every member of any ethnic group should be seen as a unique individual
Even in these times of heightened white supremacist tribalism, I don’t see “circling the wagons” as the answer for any minority.
Nature Connects: Celebrate spring in Maine and the alewives’ annual run
Collaborative efforts to restore alewives have wide-ranging benefits for river ecosystems and the many other sea-run fish species that rely on them.