Op-Eds - Centralmaine.com

Insight: Not our Pearl Harbor, but our Somme

by Michael P.H. Stanley August 23, 2020August 22, 2020

World War I’s bloodiest battle denotes the scope of the societal shifts necessary to combat COVID.

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal August 23, 2020August 22, 2020

Coronavirus infects a whole generation’s opportunity to build a fulfilling life.

by Joshua Gear August 22, 2020September 14, 2020

Voters don’t have to worry that the independent will be the ‘spoiler’ of the U.S. Senate race.

by Célia Mantovani August 21, 2020August 21, 2020

Mainers were suffering before the pandemic. The state should take steps to make it possible for more immigrant doctors to help them.

by Thomas Hallett August 21, 2020August 21, 2020

In Portland and across Maine, the blame lies not just with law enforcement, but also with higher-ups and all of us who have turned a blind eye.

by Betsy Cook and Shawn Gorman August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

We need to reinvest in the LMF program to meet the matching requirements for critical federal conservation funds.

by Dianne L. Nelder and Nena Cunningham August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

The preschool program has served families throughout the pandemic. Now it needs help keeping our most at-risk children safe.

Without front-line workers willing to sound the alarm, the postal service crisis may have gone undetected far longer.

by Diane Kibbin August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

COVID continues to most severely disrupt – and threaten – our elders, who have faced the risk with grit and grace.

by Connie Zhu August 19, 2020August 19, 2020

Amid surging anti-Asian harassment, I’m heartened by these young people’s maturity, compassion and willingness to forgo their normal activities.