Without a critical change to the payment structure for special-purpose preschools, these schools cannot survive.
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Tom Waddell: Teach the real history of race in America
Critical Race Theory, or CRT, encourages accurate teaching of our nation’s history. If we don’t teach our children accurate history, young people will never learn from our nation’s failures or appreciate its successes. Unfortunately, some people only want to teach children a whitewashed version of history that portrays America as the mythical shining city on […]
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Douglas Rooks: Bridges can unite communities, if we let them
The dispute over the Frank J. Wood Bridge between Topsham and Brunswick didn’t have to go this far.
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Commentary: It’s time to talk about fentanyl ingestion in children
The first problem is failure to test for fentanyl when a drug test is ordered. The second problem is timely recognition and treatment of opioid ingestion in children, which is nowhere near as rare as we like to think.
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The Maine Millennial: No public mission, no public money
It’s the Bangor Christian School’s style of faith that has turned my generation away from organized religion.
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Jim Fossel: These days, why compromise at all?
America seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term. What we have instead freezes discussion and fosters discord.
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Commentary: Maine’s alternative utility market experiment has been a failure
AARP Maine supports the Office of the Public Advocate’s call to repeal the program that allows retail electricity marketers to compete for residential customers.
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Commentary: If the U.S. wishes to halt flow of asylum seekers, it must make an effort to prevent war
Once war starts, very few countries have been able to quickly recover. President Biden’s latest immigration proposals seem to ignore that fact.
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Commentary: Maine must stop trying to bypass SCOTUS decision on schools
The outcome in Carson v. Makin made clear that such religious discrimination in our education system must end. Why hasn’t it?
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Commentary: Protect women athletes? Show me the money
Laws requiring equal financing and equal pay for men’s and women’s teams would benefit dozens of women athletes at USM and Bowdoin – and thousands nationwide.