President Joe Biden’s botched rollout of a revamped financial aid form reveals a stunning lack of managerial competence. It has left colleges unable to tell millions of students how much they’ll have to pay, causing some to delay enrolling and others to drop the idea altogether. This easily avoidable failure threatens to deprive low-income Americans […]
Editorials
Our View: Perfection is the enemy of our environment
The scuffle over permission for a wind energy facility on Sears Island offers a template for how not to take on climate change.
View from Away: Potatoes are not grains. Keep them rooted in the vegetable family
An influential federal committee that sets the country’s nutritional guidelines is considering reclassifying the potato as a member of the grain family, ostensibly as a strategy to combat a growing obesity epidemic. Instead, the action would confuse consumers and potentially rob Americans of affordable calories at a time food insecurity is spiking. The Dietary Guidelines […]
Our View: Digital privacy should not be a state-level priority
A bill that would place novel limits on digital marketing in the name of consumer protection could do more harm than good.
Our View: Nurse staffing ratios are unlikely to solve the problem
Stimulate the supply of future nurses. Improve pay and working conditions for those still working.
View from Away: The humanitarian aid Gaza needs most is a cease-fire
In Gaza, famine is imminent. To get urgently needed food, clean water, temporary sanitation facilities and medical supplies to more than 2 million Palestinians, President Biden ordered construction of a floating dock. Building it will take weeks. In the interim, aid trickles into the narrow strip of land between southwestern Israel and the Mediterranean. A […]
Our View: Greater housing opportunities will require lateral thinking
New creativity needs to be brought to bear on the housing crisis and the private sector has a valuable part to play.
Our View: Closed-door meeting on gun policy was ill-advised
We really don’t need any more contention on this most sensitive of subjects.
Our View: Maine finally turns a corner on public defense
After years of unacceptable neglect, the state now has three offices dedicated to representing people who can’t afford to pay for legal counsel.
Our View: Attacks on shield law are nothing more than election-year posturing
The effort by 16 Republican attorneys general to intimidate Maine out of a sound idea needs to be seen for exactly what it is.