America’s high schools face a growing crisis: Millions of students who entered ninth grade in the fall of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, are set to graduate this spring, with little hope of recovering from the learning loss incurred while schools were shut. Simply put, they’re running out of time. Since the start […]
Editorials
Our View: Use surplus to help out Mainers left behind – and further power economy
With the economy working very well for some and not at all for others, a targeted approach is required.
View from Away: Another court decision weakens the Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court panel handed down a decision last week that would hobble enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by holding that only the U.S. attorney general, not aggrieved citizens, can file lawsuits to enforce one of the landmark civil rights law’s key protections. The Supreme Court, which has a checkered history when it […]
Another View: GOP stands by as Trump lights political violence
It’s expected that barbs will be thrown, people called liars and opportunists and crooks. This isn’t that.
Our View: Now is Augusta’s opportunity to right gun control wrongs
The commonsense proposals blocked by our elected representatives earlier this year have to be revived and passed – for starters.
Another View: Bring informed debate back to universities
When did universities become places where people started conversing less and expressing open hostility more?
Our View: Mills administration is failing in effort to fix child welfare system
The state’s ability to recognize children in peril and act on their behalf is getting worse.
View from Away: Trump’s dangerous ‘vermin’ speech would have been at home in Nazi Germany
It is a full-time job to call out every one of Donald Trump’s lies and efforts to divide this nation, but his “vermin” address on Saturday deserves special attention. The ex-president and leading Republican candidate for 2024 dishonored military veterans and further tainted his political party with a hate-filled Veterans’ Day speech featuring words that […]
Our View: Rejection of Pine Tree Power opens the door to reform
With greater regulatory muscle, Maine can check off some of the boxes that dominated the public power campaign.
Our View: Metal mining has no place in future of Katahdin region
There is too much of a chance of something going wrong if Maine allows a mine in such an environmentally sensitive place.