At the last minute, true reform that will lower the price of the drug was put back in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Commentary: Unified accreditation offers UMaine System shared resources and better efficiency
Standing alone, some of our universities may not meet traditional accreditation requirements. The unified approach is the best means of supporting and sustaining them.
Maine Voices: Acadia celebrates a landmark investment in the great outdoors
The Great American Outdoors Act helps make up for years of limited funding that degraded the National Park Service’s ability to address infrastructure.
Maine Compass: Time to restore passenger rail service to central Maine
A propensity study puts us on the right track. A feasibility study can get us to our destination.
Maine Voices: Death at jail shows we’re paying high price for opioid epidemic
Those who oversee the health and wellbeing of adults behind bars are clearly ill equipped for that responsibility.
Douglas Rooks: Is UMaine chancellor living on borrowed time?
Dannel Malloy is accountable for the debacle at UMA, but he’s had some considerable accomplishments, too.
Maine Voices: Shellfish farms here and across America are being hammered by climate change
As shellfish aquaculture is thwarted by global warming, so are its social, environmental and economic benefits.
Commentary: Need for greater public and private investment in higher education’s hidden costs
In Maine and across the nation, ‘invisible’ financial barriers hold back many low-income first-generation college students.
Maine Voices: Small businesses like mine deserve a level playing field
I pay my fair share toward the communities we all want. Let’s make billionaires and corporations do the same.