Some connections between educators and their pupils fade with time. This one didn’t.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Compass: Celebrate veterans this Fourth of July by lowering drug prices
Pharmaceutical price-gouging hurts all Americans, including those who have served our country, writes a veteran from Oakland.
Jim Fossel: Republicans hand Democrats victories on crime, immigration
The issues highlight a consistent fault of the Republican Party at all levels: constant criticism with no real follow-through.
Maine Observer: Take me out to the crowd, please
Consider the best parts of being among others again – cozy library reading rooms, a real ballpark roar and our voices lifted in song at church.
The Maine Millennial: The climate time bomb keeps ticking more loudly
As we continue to make Earth more hospitable to pests and less hospitable to humans, Mainers age 40 and under are going to pay the highest price.
Commentary: New water wars are coming to the American West
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
Maine Voices: It’s time to rethink how we prevent child abuse, neglect
The state must prioritize prevention and early intervention services to stabilize struggling Maine families before they are in crisis.
Doyle McManus: We’re two Americas, vaccinated and unvaccinated. College football could fix that
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Commentary: Rural Maine cooperative holds up well when compared to CMP
A commentary fails to acknowledge that Eastern Maine Electric’s rates are very close to CMP’s, though the investor-owned utility’s territory is much cheaper to serve.