Union Gen. Oliver Otis Howard saw education for former slaves as the best way to ensure they could be informed voters.
Maine Voices
Maine Voices: Want a healthy planet? Check your rivers
Mainers should be proud of their leadership in river restoration. Still, there’s a lot more work to do.
Maine Voices: Power line would disrupt commercial forest
Imported Canadian hydropower would crowd out biomass generation, hurting the state’s forest economy.
Maine Voices: COVID crisis hits behavioral health
Community-based providers of mental health and substance use disorder services may not survive if the state doesn’t release federal funds.
Maine Voices: Listening to atomic bombing survivors’ stories is more important than ever
On the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, we must understand the effects of nuclear weapons and debate their role in our society.
Maine Voices: Child care essential for families to go back to work, students to go back to school
For Maine’s reopening to succeed, providers should be supported in a way that reflects their importance.
Maine Voices: BIW workers are pushed to settle, but no one’s making demands of General Dynamics
Calling for a more equitable sharing of General Dynamics/BIW profits takes political courage – unions alone can’t do it.
Maine Voices: Keep Maine’s fishermen and restaurants afloat during the COVID crisis
It will take intervention by Congress to prevent thousands of small businesses from becoming coronavirus casualties.
Maine Voices: There is a nonviolent solution to federal snatch-and-grab teams, dehumanized law enforcement
A half-century of militarization has created police forces without connection to the communities they serve.
Maine Voices: To make America truly great again, move toward greater equity
Countries with adequate and accessible social supports are countries where more people can use their potential.