Who is L.D. 678 for? Who is being protected? Whose rights are being upheld? Moreover, whose are not?
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Commentary: Maine’s girls and nonbinary youth deserve to be listened to
Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.
Maine Voices: Maine made me the scientist I am today
An opportunity to learn and work alongside professional ocean researchers as a high school junior, without any cost to my family, changed my life for the better.
Maine Voices: ‘Obscene’ content bill does not have child protection at its heart
This bill would criminalize librarianship and subject our communities to costly lawsuits over … well, you name it.
Maine Compass: The landfill operator who cried wolf
Casella’s recent sudden decision to stop landfilling sludge at Juniper Ridge is a blatant attempt to undo vital legislation and is a classic bullying tactic.
Commentary: The Willow Project is a carbon bomb. Biden just lit the match
The Willow Project may seem far-removed from our two Portlands. The reality is it has grave consequences for the ocean, which many Mainers and Oregonians rely on.
Commentary: Fearmongering diverts attention from real threats of gender oppression
Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said gender equality worldwide is now 300 years away and “vanishing before our eyes.”
Jim Fossel: Biden budget beggars belief
If a spoiled child concocted a federal budget proposal, it’d look a lot like the one Biden just unveiled.
Commentary: Who lived here until Europe showed up on the shore?
I walk the land in Westbrook and think about all that colonizers attempted to eliminate – and how little evidence of that is on display.
The Maine Millennial: Hello Tinder, my old friend
Men of Maine: I mustache you some questions.