On a September day in 1994, 32,000 AT&T employees telecommuted from home in an alternative work experiment widely heralded as the wave of the future. Almost 30 years later, in June, AT&T ordered 60,000 managers working remotely to return to the office, forcing 9,000 of them who do not live within commuting distance of AT&T’s […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Douglas Rooks: Union revival no longer a pipe dream
Joe Biden set out to be the most pro-labor president in memory, and succeeded. He became the first president to join a picket line during the epic United Auto Workers strike against the “big three” automakers that the unions won — game, set and match. Donald Trump spoke at a non-union auto parts plant in […]
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Commentary: Working while sick has become the terrible new normal
And who wants to use sick days in January? You’ve got 11 more months ahead and might end up much sicker later on.
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Commentary: The Supreme Court has 6 options for keeping Trump on the ballot. All of them are flawed
I recently surmised that in considering former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for office under the 14th Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court will seek a national solution that applies to all 50 states. That dictates a reversal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Trump for engaging in insurrection, on grounds that preclude other […]
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Opinion: America repeats its history of Black oppression with book bans
No longer is racial terror the sole work of people in white hoods but inked in this nation’s history through legislators.
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Hilary Koch: Health care and the purgatory of ‘processing’
A trip into the labyrinthine system is no fun when our lives are on the line.
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Jim Fossel: In politics, age isn’t just a number
It’s up to both party leadership and voters to steer the U.S. away from the prospect of a gerontocracy.
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The Maine Millennial: Car headlights are out of control
Won’t somebody think of the rural sedan driver?
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Douglas Rooks: Let all votes for president be counted equally
Using the popular vote instead of electors would help restore trust in elections.
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Opinion: Don’t be fooled, snow is becoming a thing of the past
In all but seven of 240 U.S. cities, average winter temperatures have risen since 1970 by an average of 3.8 degrees.