The proposal that would introduce nurse-to-patient ratios in Maine is one of the few interventions that can repair perilous working conditions for nurses.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Stephen L. Carter: Social media rebuff shows Biden overstepped on COVID misinformation
Picture a Republican administration “engaging” with social media companies to “recommend” that they delete or slow the spread of posts discussing voter suppression. Why? Because the White House’s experts have “debunked” most of the claims, and the rest, even if not “provably false,” nevertheless are “dubious.” Imagine that some of the “requests” are as specific […]
James Stavridis: US military’s recruiting woes are a national-security crisis
America’s armed services are failing to meet their recruiting goals, with the Army in particular suffering the worst shortfalls in five decades. There are many reasons behind this, but one is very surprising: veterans themselves. Recent reporting and anecdotal evidence indicate the likelihood that children of service members will sign up, or be urged to […]
Commentary: Ignoring the humanity of migrants won’t fix migration problems
For five days, “Breaking News” alerts hit my phone repeatedly with updates on the search for a missing submersible on its way to the Titanic. The search for the five-passenger vessel began only days after an overloaded migrant vessel capsized carrying some 750 desperate people bound for Greece. The migrants aboard came from Pakistan, Egypt, […]
Jim Fossel: Dilly-dallying Legislature shows scant regard for Maine taxpayers
The shoddy practice of waiting until the last minute to vote on controversial bills seems to worsen every session.
The Maine Millennial: Beware ‘the Maine stare’ and what it implies
For whom is the welcome mat rolled out? It’s time Mainers got real about the answer.
Sen. Trey Stewart: The broken promises of Maine’s Gov. Mills are piling up
A series of unfulfilled pledges has tarnished Mills’ reputation and enabled radicals to pilfer Mainers’ paychecks to pay for expensive policy experiments.
Commentary: Gov. Mills’ broken promises continue to pile up
A series of reneged-on pledges has tarnished Janet Mills’ reputation. Maine can’t afford to govern like this.
Jay Ambrose: Being fair to each other helps us all
The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipled means of discriminating against qualified applicants wanting entry as students. Some instead granted admission in accordance with skin color, which happened in this case to be black, the exact opposite of white preferences […]
Commentary: The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling addressed a simplistic sound bite; plenty of real problems remain
American education has a long history of exclusion, and fixing that just got a lot more complicated.