While the country’s attention is on the coronavirus, another crisis continued to worsen.
Editorials
Our View: South Portland panel would investigate bias
With a proposed local human rights commission, the city is confronting a deep and complex problem.
Our View: It’s time to save Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House
It’s not enough to tear down statues that don’t align with our values. We need to put up monuments that do.
View from Away: Release grand jury records of “Filthy Rich” Jeffrey Epstein
Sun Sentinel (TNS)
Our View: ‘Dreamers’ need more than high court’s reprieve
Immigrants who grew up in America and know no other home deserve permanent status and a path to citizenship.
Our View: Maine schools will need money to reopen
Cleaning, transportation and schedule changes will add costs to already-stretched local budgets it Congress doesn’t act.
View from Away: Two black men hanging from trees in Southern California? Leave no stone unturned investigating
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Our View: Juneteenth offers reckoning on race
The holiday marking the end of American slavery is an occasion to consider the still unfulfilled promises of freedom.
Another View: COVID-19 puts college out of reach for poor
If Congress doesn’t intervene, millions of the neediest Americans wont be able to afford higher education.
Our View: Open restaurants, closed polling places and meeting deep needs
A roundup of editorial topics in the 12th week of the coronavirus crisis in Maine.