The plight of the Bowdoin graduate, unjustly imprisoned in Russia since March of last year, has to stay in the public eye.
Editorials
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View from Away: Lack of housing is pushing more seniors onto the streets. That’s on all of us
All homelessness is troubling. But there is something particularly unsettling about older people — those age 50 and above — falling into homelessness after decades of lives filled with homes and jobs, faced with spending their last years on a sidewalk. Yet the numbers of older homeless people are rising across the country. The proportion […]
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Our View: Maine’s PFAS crisis demands change of approach
We’ve got to wrap our heads around the rising costs of solving this problem; they are only going to rise.
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Our View: Abortion ruling allows Maine to stay the course – for now
The Mills administration’s consistent, proactive work on abortion access is still as important as ever.
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Our View: School funding shouldn’t come to a scrum
Too often, Mainers fight tooth and nail to get voters’ blessing for school projects. Isn’t there a better way?
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Our View: Mitigation of climate change must not be lost to its management
We seem eerily good at bracing for and braving the tumult that a changing climate throws our way – and less good at working to arrest the change.
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View from Away: MLB finally embraces all of the major leagues. Including the Black ones
Who holds Major League Baseball’s record for the highest batting average in a single season? It’s not Ted Williams, with his .406 average in 1941, the last time anyone topped .400. It’s not Ty Cobb, with his stunning .420 average in 1911, or even Nap Lajoie, whose .426 average in 1901 generally shows up in […]
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Our View: Don McLean’s White House invitation beggars belief
A person convicted of domestic abuse has absolutely no business at a state dinner.
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Our View: The 1901 Maine state flag is still the 1901 Maine state flag
Vexatious comparisons with ‘Appeal to Heaven’ can, frankly, go to hell.
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Our View: Fearlessness of exactly the wrong kind from Sen. Susan Collins
In attempting to undermine the judicial system and fanning the flames of anti-establishment rabble-rousing and worse, the senator has nailed her colors to the mast.