The governor’s 2011 executive order had put the state and Maine’s tribes on equal footing, but his rescission of it is disturbing.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
Organ donation can be gift of life to loved ones as well as recipients
Things go wrong in life in spite of our most thoughtful precautions, but donating our organs can make life better for people in need. Matthew Dunlap
Veterans’ health care system is very ill
One idea is to split VA’s health program into two entitities — one specializing in vets with service-related injuries, the other for generalized medical care.
Proposed cuts to public health agencies will hurt obesity prevention efforts
Reducing access to social safety nets contributes to the epidemic that afflicts 30 percent of Mainers.
Great Northern mill tax scam is just the tip of giveaway iceberg
Maine is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and politics is the problem.