Athletics cannot be approached like academia or the job market.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Douglas Rooks: Firings and contract-shredding will never produce efficiency
Random terminations only demoralize employees and weaken agencies.
Opinion: Maine’s proposed cigarette tax hike has hidden costs
The state’s retailers will feel the pinch if smokers choose to take advantage of the lower rate in New Hampshire.
Opinion: It’s time to free Maine’s schoolkids from their screens
A state-level bill proposes a pilot program for a phone-free, tablet-free school day. You don’t have to be an expert to know this is right.
Opinion: Susan Collins should have protected the CFPB
The Trump administration is doing the bidding of big banks. Sen. Collins’ focus must be on consumers in Maine.
Opinion: Maine’s county jail funding system is broken
We’re living with a system inherited from late medieval England — and it shows.
Opinion: The case for allowing transgender athletes to compete
When girls are pushed to succeed, they succeed, regardless of the competition.
Opinion: True greatness is choosing not to look the other way
We need everyone to look the excesses of the Trump administration straight in the eye and say, ‘No.’
Opinion: America’s financial watchdog itself now needs protection
The weighty-dollar work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under attack by political ideologues.
Jim Fossel: Musk and DOGE need to find the middle ground
The cost-cutting concept is well and good. The implementation has been lacking.