If the goal is to protect both right whales and the fishing industry, the debate is heading in the wrong direction.
Editorials
Our View: Another summer tourism season shows value of good workers
Hospitality businesses are competing for workers from a limited pool. The ones that win will be the best position to thrive.
Our View: Every effort must be made not to sideline skilled workers
Lots of factors make the workforce crisis stubborn. In 2022, credential recognition should not be one of them.
Our View: Loudmouths take the joy out of high school sports
With abuse on the rise, coaches and game officials are in short supply.
Our View: We can’t keep track of our ‘deadliest days’
The rate of death and injury on our roads has spiraled out of control. New solutions are needed.
Our View: Maine schools must be ready for post-pandemic challenges
COVID-era learning loss threatens to add to longstanding inequities in education.
Our View: Half-baked tax relief plan needed more time
In attempting to eliminate older Mainers’ property tax burden, we’ve created a burden of a different kind.
View from Away: Social media must self-police for violence to preserve its unique value
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
Our View: No longer just a crisis but an indefensible failure
The more we neglect legal representation for people who can’t pay for it, the more painful the cost – social and financial – to the state of Maine.