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Commentary: With Supreme Court reform ideas, Biden is playing the long game
The first and easiest question to answer with respect to the package of Supreme Court reform measures that President Joe Biden announced Monday is whether there is any hope of their passage or enactment by the current Congress. There is not. With Congress hopelessly polarized and the Supreme Court hopelessly politicized, there is no chance […]
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Opinion: Embrace community; embrace access to higher ed for all Mainers
My daughter’s journey with Saint Joseph’s College of Maine’s Integrated Studies Program has been nothing short of transformational.
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Opinion: Climate-smart forestry can grow Maine’s bioeconomy
Realizing the carbon benefits of forests requires a systems approach, combining ecological and climate objectives.
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Commentary: Venezuela needs its neighbors’ help more than ever
Of all the different scenarios in Venezuela’s election on Sunday, we witnessed the most likely one: Nicolás Maduro was announced as the winner of the vote by the country’s electoral authority controlled by the authoritarian president’s close allies. Shortly past midnight in Caracas, the National Electoral Council said that Maduro got 51% of the vote […]
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Commentary: Women are America’s working class now
It’s an election year, which means we’ll be hearing a lot from both Democrats and Republicans claiming that their party is the one true champion of working-class Americans. Sure, but what does it mean to be part of the working class in America these days? It means being female. If there’s one statistic that describes […]
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Commentary: Extreme heat is making our mental health worse
On July 22, planet Earth achieved a terrifying milestone: Global temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history, breaking a record set just one day before. This year is expected to be the hottest in centuries. Heat waves are hotter, longer and more frequent than they were in the 1960s. By now, most of us […]
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Opinion: Confirm Stacey Neumann to be a District of Maine judge
Her strong record means should earn a prompt confirmation.
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Commentary: The Olympics promise to be socially responsible. How’s that working out?
Olympic host cities make promises that are all but impossible to keep, and in recent years, the organizers’ wishful thinking about housing and neighborhood redevelopment has been one of the cruelest Olympic disappointments. With the 2024 Paris Games, we are seeing it all over again — displacement, gentrification and the unhoused “voluntarily” lured elsewhere with […]
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Opinion: Three cheers for a TV show about something
For two hours each week, ‘America’s Got Talent’ removes us from the confines of the box in which we sometimes find ourselves.