View from Away: An ambitious push to help small farmers

Our View: Attacks on public meetings, elected officials should be met with unified front

The incidents are not pranks; they are meant to shock, disrupt and intimidate.

Our View: The child poverty rate doubled because we let it

The expiration of the federal child tax credit left American children behind last year. We should be way past scaremongering about ‘welfare’ and ‘generosity.’

Our View: Settlement must be used to repair damage from drug addiction

Companies that helped precipitate the crisis will send tens of millions of dollars to Maine. We must use it the right way.

View from Away: Holding up military promotions risks compromising military readiness

Our View: Dismantling barriers to shelter will take patience and time

The early experience of Portland’s new Encampment Crisis Response Team should be instructive for all of Maine.

Our View: Low pay for state employees is hurting everyone

Compensation for state workers undervalues their work. As a result, both the workers and the work are suffering.

Our View: We have not nearly earned the right to quibble about gun control

Narrow and tendentious arguments against gun laws say they don’t - or won’t - make any difference. Pass the laws, find out.

Our View: UMaine System once again fails to be transparent

The state university system is withholding public information related to the bungled hiring of a new president last year at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Our View: Back to school, back to making education more of a priority

We're doing a good amount for Maine schools. To solve the most pernicious problems, however, we have to do more.