Maine’s Department of Labor needs to review a plan that would make businesses with existing PFML programs pay twice.
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Opinion: Trump’s Big Lie isn’t just a national scourge
If the former president and his allies prevail in November, we’ll need principled local leaders to stand up against malevolence and chicanery.
Opinion: Maine needs to pass a red flag law – now
Give families the right to seek emergency orders to remove guns from dangerous relatives. It’s that simple.
Opinion: Help teens to better understand gender, sexuality
An adolescent’s job is to figure out where they fit in the scheme of life. Our job as adults is to support that process.
Opinion: Beware the antiabortion ‘clinic’ in Maine
Legal but unethical, crisis pregnancy centers’ maneuvers can be misleading and dangerous.
Opinion: Law students demand solutions to Maine’s Sixth Amendment crisis
We urge the local legal community to react with respect for the fundamental constitutional rights of all. The future of our work depends on it.
Opinion: We must embrace humility, be willing to be wrong
Too much certainty and our stances become rigid and brittle. Too much doubt and they waver with every breeze.
Opinion: Heat waves are deadlier than hurricanes. Make them ‘disasters.’
Though this week’s heat wave will have all the hallmarks of a discrete natural disaster, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not treat it as such.
Opinion: Nursing home staffing mandates must stand
The new mandates were the help we waited for and we celebrated. What is happening now is crushing to the spirit of every nurse I know.
Opinion: Stories about transformation in prison distract from greater truths
While we all benefit from a good story, some stories are more productive than others.