These administrators weren’t serving some great hidden agenda. They were just trying to protect their institutions – and themselves.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Douglas Rooks: George Mitchell and how to serve your constituents
The Maine political giant, who just turned 90, has lessons for today’s elected officials.
Maine Compass: Go home, Biden and Trump
Speaking as an elder, I think it’s time for Trump and Biden to exit the political stage and let the next generation take the helm.
Maine Compass: Using December’s verbs while putting the year to bed
Although the shortest day is still to come, I’m thinking ahead to how soon the days begin to lengthen again.
Commentary: Christmas gift-giving turbocharges our trash problem. This is how I cope
Every time I rip open a lovingly wrapped gift (and plenty of us will be doing a lot of that soon), one thing pops into my mind: trash. The wrapping paper, trash. The package hidden underneath it, trash. And the gift itself, in most cases, future trash, given enough time. Too harsh? Then ask yourself: […]
Opinion: Biden’s supporters need to start acting like it
The president is beset by progressive advocacy groups and media voices complaining that he hasn’t done enough.
Tom Waddell: Maine should end its funding of private schools altogether
The state doesn’t have to send public money to schools operated by Christian nationalists.
Opinion: Of Seinfeld, Scrooge and climate change – a holiday parable
How to celebrate the holidays without hurting the environment? I’ve got ideas.
Commentary: Listen up. The closing of the teenage mind is almost complete
My revelation came in the spring, after a typical day in 11th-grade AP English. The topic was gender and how the experiences of the authors we were studying related to our world today. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear anything I hadn’t heard many times before. Class discussions tend to go like that. We’ve been inculcated with […]
Commentary: Republicans in Congress: Don’t fail your history test
Metering aid to Ukraine according to reductions in U.S. border crossings? That’s absurd.