Too many students are without the right tools or information. Many of them are being supported by adults who last navigated this process decades ago, when everything was different.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine public schools should stop blaming parents, start rebuilding trust | Opinion
Whichever path administrators choose will shape the future of education in the state.
Don’t be fooled by Republican trickery in Maine Senate races | Steve Collins
In four state Senate contests, GOP-aligned candidates switched their party registration to unaffiliated, allowing them to appear on the ballot as independents.
America’s health care crisis continues to add insult to injury | Opinion
We need to demand that our leaders in Augusta and Washington commit, beyond just expression of “concerns,” to voting to improve, not dismantle, our health care system.
Maine’s high electric rates are due to legislative failure, not corporate greed | Opinion
Our situation is 100% self-induced.
Support ‘blue-collar research’ on Maine’s experimental forests | Opinion
It took about 60 years to measure 1 million trees. Let’s support those foresters who want to get to work on measuring another million.
If education, business and labor come together, Maine can take advantage of AI | Opinion
Maine has faced large-scale worker dislocations before. In the absence of effective federal regulation, we must invest and collaborate as we face the biggest yet.
Maine’s finest conservation efforts are rooted in community | Nature Connects
A network of more than 80 land trusts across the state is redefining conservation as a tool for stronger, more resilient communities.
The Hungarian election should keep autocrats up at night | Opinion
Stronger-than-expected democratic institutions, enduring economic concerns, public outrage and an indignant young population — these are the factors that carried the day.
The atrocities in Gaza continue to be minimized | Opinion
Getting arrested seems to be the only way to get the media to pay any attention.