We can accept federal Medicaid funding tomorrow and not only cost the state nothing, but boost the budget by $26 million.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Smarter Balanced test useless, even harmful, to kids with disabilities
Maine should work with teachers and parents to create a fair, helpful way of gauging student progress.
Earned Income Tax Credit works in Maine, but could work better
Legislature considers three bills that would increase the state’s EITC rate and make the credit refundable.
Job creation incentives must be held accountable for spending
If waste, fraud and inefficiency by state agencies are not tolerated, why do tax expenditures sail through?
LePage abrupt action hurtful to tribes
The governor’s 2011 executive order had put the state and Maine’s tribes on equal footing, but his rescission of it is disturbing.
Income tax elimination would cause ‘tremendous impact,’ but how?
Good for entrepreneurs and job creators or bad for those who have to make up revenue deficit?
Colby chief leaps out of the closet into crowd of indignant hate-haters
Yik Yak Hatefest spurs self-revelation that Colby head is an affluent white man who didn’t earn privileges he enjoys.
Low-income workers deserve healthful food
If chicken, pork chops and beef can get a raise, we should get one too.
Nanny-statism has gone too far when police pick up sisters walking home from nearby park
Maryland police overreact, call in Child Protective Services, for parents raising ‘free-range’ children. M.D. Harmon
How old are you? Don’t ask, don’t tell
I think I’m 66, but if someone told me that wasn’t true, it wouldn’t be a shock to me.