Editorials - Centralmaine.com

Our View: If schools close, it will be because of widespread illness, not COVID policy

by The Editorial Board January 7, 2022January 6, 2022

It’s not that testing and quarantine rules are too strict or schools too cautious. It’s that too many people are sick.

by The Editorial Board January 6, 2022January 5, 2022

If Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans continue to block these protections, then the mob will have won.

by The Editorial Board January 5, 2022January 4, 2022

If Republicans want to have a hand in how the state responds to the pandemic, they have to act more responsibly.

by The Editorial Board January 4, 2022January 3, 2022

Whether we’re vaccinated or not, high levels of transmission dictate that we should cover up when indoors in public.

Tampa Bay Times (TNS)

by The Editorial Board January 2, 2022January 1, 2022

Criminal prosecutions of abusive caregivers don’t shed enough light on the agency charged with protecting children.

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

by The Editorial Board December 31, 2021December 30, 2021

With very few and exact exceptions, no one in government can tell a newspaper what it can and cannot publish.

by The Editorial Board December 30, 2021December 29, 2021

Restaurant work is hard enough without the risk of catching a serious disease on the job.

by The Editorial Board December 29, 2021December 28, 2021

The rejections from the regional immigration office far outpace the national average, and the government has been slow in explaining why.