The rehabilitation of our friends, family and neighbors drives the system and Maine’s Department of Corrections.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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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 […]
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Maine Voices: Hard work of dedicated Long Creek staff unfairly overlooked
The Press Herald Editorial Board keeps taking swipes at people who help youths with no other place to go.
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Douglas Rooks: Costs are at the center of the health care crisis
We need effective hospital regulation to rein in how much we spend on health care.
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Timothy L. O’Brien: Trump’s racism infests the Republican Party
Back in February, Rep. Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Rep. Mark Meadows, a white Republican. Members of Congress were fielding the testimony of President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, when Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, accused Meadows of racism for trotting out a female black Trump appointee as a […]