Reluctant to provide information about favorable treatment for children of alumni, Bates, Bowdoin and Colby show there are limits to their commitment to fairness and transparency.
Editorials
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Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows
State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can’t allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows
State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can’t allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Justices put integrity of Supreme Court at risk
If the Court won’t police itself, Congress must do it for them.
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Our View: Major federal connectivity grant has to go a long way
Reaching 94,000 Maine homes and businesses that currently have unreliable internet or none at all is but one piece of a tricky puzzle.
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Our View: We can’t afford to get used to climate change
A series of wet, dreary weeks culminated in natural disaster in parts of the Northeast. The writing is, once again, on the wall.
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View from Away: US surgeon general takes aim at the toll inflicted by loneliness and isolation
The “nation’s doctor” is on a campaign to combat what he calls an epidemic of loneliness and isolation taking its toll on roughly half the people in the United States. His call to action to “mend the social fabric of our nation” deserves broad support, from government, professionals and institutions — and from each of […]
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Our View: Gov. Mills’ argument on tribes must now to be put to the test
Mills maintains that the best outcome for both the Wabanaki and the state can be obtained at the negotiating table. It shouldn’t be said another time; it should happen now.
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Our View: Maine colleges strike the right note on affirmative action
Strong responses to last week’s Supreme Court ruling indicate that institutional leadership is thinking about diversity in the right way.
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‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 2, 1776, and published on July 4 — 247 years ago today. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected […]