I once gave a drug dealer some career advice: Sell cars, not cocaine. The guy seemed open to that idea. He had come to me in the summer of 2005, after reading one of several columns in which we offered advice for “getting out of the game.” He was about 30 years old, dressed in […]
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LZ Granderson: Yacht-busting orcas and board-stealing otters? The Earth is angry
A handful of college students caught a record-breaking 19-foot Burmese python in Florida last week. That’s longer than the width of an NFL goal post. Jake Waleri, an amateur hunter himself, said he wanted to show his friends “the true Florida experience,” and so he decided to take them into Big Cypress National Preserve in […]
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Commentary: ‘Oppenheimer’ is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?
In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that […]
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The Maine Millennial: Depression is a mental illness, and that’s OK
Deciding not to talk about a problem doesn’t make it go away.
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Commentary: Here’s a better way to lower ‘standard offer’ electricity costs
What about introducing a system that would enhance competition, producing even lower costs?
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Jim Fossel: We must keep closer watch as legislators try to dodge scrutiny
Looking back over the session that just wrapped in Maine, some distressing trends emerge.
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Commentary: A lot done for Maine’s housing crisis, a lot more to do
Although policies alone will not solve the challenges we’re facing, many of them will significantly help.
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Commentary: Barbie is more than a longtime feminist flashpoint
Together, in the 1960s and ’70s, we weathered the societal upheavals that roiled women’s lives.
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Commentary: Maine’s business community doesn’t support new tax-funded entitlement
Next session, Gov. Mills should introduce a bill that creates a family-related leave program that works for all Mainers, including small businesses, and is considerate of Maine’s economic constraints.
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Conor Sen: The White House knows where inflation’s headed. You can too
The White House embraced “Bidenomics” to describe its economic agenda last month, reclaiming a term that President Joe Biden’s detractors have frequently used as a pejorative. Various administration officials have since talked up its ambitions. I have no doubt that they’re sincere about the importance of the middle-class, infrastructure investments and union jobs with an […]