City-run shelters are a life-saving regional resource — and GA is a bad way to fund them.
Editorials
OUR OPINION: Congress should help ease high drug costs
A bill before the Senate addresses some of the issues that derailed Maine’s importation law.
Would-be Mars explorers display courage beyond words
Even knowing they won’t return, more than 200,000 applied to go to the Red Planet.
OUR OPINION: Thumbs up, thumbs down
Veterans health care, hemp regulations make the news this week
OUR OPINION: South Portland students give lesson in patriotism
Religious freedom and free speech are more important than the rote recitation of a pledge.
OUR OPINION: UMaine System gets lesson in data security
It may need improved safeguards after a policy violation leaves ex-students exposed to ID theft.
OUR OPINION: Battle against Big Tobacco far from over
The courts should continue to hold cigarette companies accountable for years of fraud and deception.
OUR OPINION: Minimum wage too low, Wal-Mart decision shows
Low-wage workers need the state and federal governments to follow the retailer’s example.
OUR OPINION: Budget proposal good next step in fixing Riverview
Lawmakers must also figure out what to do with the most difficult and dangerous patients at the hospital.
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Another rail car explosion, sustainably harvested seafood make the news this week.