Vice President Kamala Harris ticked off her presidential campaign checklist with a visit to the southern border last week. She talked with members of the Border Patrol and made boilerplate promises of getting tough on immigration. Sorry, Kamala, you don’t get points for promising to close the barn door after the horses have escaped. Harris, […]
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Our View: Standards for care of disabled kids have slipped out of sight
The neglect of Maine’s most vulnerable children is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. When can we expect evidence of reform?
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View from Away: Helene’s 500 miles of wreckage and devastation should bring howls of fury at leaders’ folly
The storms speak and their voices are growing more violent, more vehement. This storm — Helene — may be the most furious yet. It raked glancing blows through the Caribbean and along Mexico’s coast before slamming into Florida’s Big Bend at Category 4, with 140 mph sustained winds that tore buildings into scraps of wood […]
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Our View: Good climate policy depends on consensus
Efforts from the ground up won’t work without firm commitment from the top down.
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Our View: Let’s end squeamishness about beach access
Public use of intertidal areas in Maine simply should not – still – be such a hard-fought battle.
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Our View: Brunswick spill a ‘never again’ moment for Maine
The more detail emerges about the circumstances of the spill, the more obvious it is that we need a far more rigorous approach to public health and safety … and to PFAS.
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Our View: State environmental protection needs to become much more active
Wanton pollution of Maine’s environment has to be cracked down on more harshly. This is not and cannot be a partisan matter.
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View from Away: Trump’s ridiculous mass deportation ‘solution’ hides his lies about the Southern Border
If reelected, former President Donald Trump, vows to carry out the “largest domestic deportation operation” in U.S. history and he claims that the Biden-Harris administration “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.” It’s a ridiculous claim, as PolitiFact and many other fact-checkers have […]
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View from Away: Why the Fed shouldn’t stop worrying about inflation
At the recent central-bank symposium at Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a widely expected message on interest rates: “The time has come for policy to adjust.” He all but confirmed that the Fed would cut rates by at least a quarter-point when its policymakers next meet in September. A modest cut makes […]
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Our View: No better time to recognize Frances Perkins than right now
President Biden’s pledge to designate national monuments to the legacies of extraordinary women is tailormade for the crusading Perkins.