Longstanding staff shortages and an overreliance on overtime come with many costs.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Hilary Koch: Only call if you’re bleeding
“Text or call me only if someone is bleeding profusely or in the hospital,” I told my husband and kids as I kissed them goodbye. My eldest thought I was joking, but I wasn’t. This rule was inspired after receiving texts from the three of them. Simultaneously. As if they had conspired, and counted down […]
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Commentary: An attack on a Maine school librarian is an attack on democracy
The professional school library community will continue to uphold the principle of intellectual freedom. But we need your help.
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Jim Fossel: Can the congressional races hold our interest?
The Golden-Poliquin debate disagreement makes the issues-based tack taken by 1st District candidate Ed Thelander look pretty good.
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The Maine Millennial: Kids cannot learn until they feel secure
I’ve been lucky enough to get a glimpse into Maine’s public schools. What I see is teachers and support staff busting their buns every day for Maine’s kiddos, despite being overworked and underpaid.
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Sen. Craig Hickman: With so much at stake, we must protect our lakes
What the Cobbosseecontee Lake Association has achieved in the fight against invasive milfoil is truly astounding, the state senator writes.
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Tyler Cowen: When immigration hypocrisy landed on Martha’s Vineyard
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spent public money to fly about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the ostensible point — besides trolling and publicity, of course — was to show that immigrants are a burden on red-state resources. But his stunt reveals a political and cultural corruption far deeper […]
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Douglas Rooks: Post-pandemic, unions again on the march
Less than a month after a decertification effort failed spectacularly, the nurses’ union at Maine Medical Center signed its first contract — a historic achievement, possibly a milestone in reviving the union movement. As just about everyone knows, unions, until the pandemic, had been declining for decades, with their private sector membership a third of […]
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Maine Voices: Outdated law denies appropriate care to people with serious brain disorders
Hospital violence, in Maine as elsewhere, can be traced right back to a federal law from 1965.
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Commentary: Parents shaped COVID-19 policies more than politics
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)