I’ll never forget the search coordinator’s first words after I picked up the phone: “Peter, are you sitting down?” Well, I was at the time, but when she broke the news, I jumped out of my seat screaming and punching my fist in the air, then dissolved into tears and sobs. When I called my […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Jim Fossel: GOP candidates should say what they are for
It’s not too soon to identify issues that most Republicans agree on, and set the party’s agenda for 2020.
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J. Lauren Sangster, Portland: A voice from the past still soothes
When I think of a phone call that means something to me, I think of a voicemail from Mike. I found it sometime after Mike passed away, still sitting in the in-box on my phone since the day he left it, Aug. 8, 2018. For a while I listened to the words, “I saw you […]
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Commissioner Liberty: Editorial casts Maine’s correctional system in unduly bleak light
The rehabilitation of our friends, family and neighbors drives the system and Maine’s Department of Corrections.
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Noah Smith: Education is for everyone, but college isn’t
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she wants to turn K-12 schooling into K-16 — in other words, to move toward making public four-year colleges free and universal. But there are good reasons not to do this. Past a certain point, education probably works best as an eclectic mix of approaches rather than as a one-size-fits-all program. […]
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Maine Compass: Why I quit playing banjo
“Musician’s dystonia” forced the author to put down his instrument, at least professionally.
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Maine Voices: Any American can be a patriot without being a nationalist
Patriots are committed to liberty and democracy, while nationalists value the symbols of a nation.
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Tom Waddell: Mills makes up for lost years
Gov. Janet Mills is reversing a lot of harm done by Gov. Paul LePage.
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Maine Voices: Immigrants are the new American faces of the green revolution
Recently arrived Angolan and Congolese migrants have an assimilation role model in Maine’s Somali farmers.
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Another View: Freedom of speech is vital to a well-functioning democracy
I have a coffee cup on my desk that I bought some years ago at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. It illustrated one of the Four Freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted were essential to America’s democracy. They were freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom to worship God in your own […]