The state will use all its financial tools to ease the disruption caused by a global pandemic.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
The View From Here: Life in the time of coronavirus
We are all going to find out if a few voluntary inconveniences can prevent a catastrophe.
Sen. Collins: Aid package will limit COVID-19’s economic damage
Maine’s senior senator outlines some high points in the bill that aims to keep workers and businesses afloat while normal operations are on hold.
Jim Fossel: Maine Legislature still has a lot of work to do
Current rates of spending won’t be sustainable, and lawmakers will have to come back to work before the 2020 election.
Bill Nemitz: While others partied on beaches, these Maine kids fired up their computers
A public service announcement, produced by a group of Gorham High School seniors, sends the right message on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Maine Millennial: Even in a pandemic, still bringing home strays
A drafty old farmhouse becomes a port in a storm for dislocated college students.
Maine Voices: On the front lines of COVID-19 fight, nurses and doctors are unprotected
Because health care corporations didn’t prepare, a nurse and her colleagues wonder every day whether they’ll bring home the deadly virus.
Maine Voices: Paging Dr. Koop – we need his science-based advocacy during today’s crisis
The U.S. must hear from a health care expert who commands the nation’s respect, as the surgeon general did in the AIDS epidemic.
MaineHousing director: No one should lose their home because of COVID-19
Lenders and landlords should work with newly jobless borrowers and tenants on payment plans that will keep the roof over their heads.
Commentary: A region-specific strategy could slow the coronavirus and protect the US economy
Chicago Tribune (TNS)