An effective utility tax of about $275 per year on every CMP and Versant ratepayer simply cannot stand.
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Our View: Strengthening the safety net for Maine’s safety net
Maine’s General Assistance program helps people when they have nowhere else to go — no other options for finding food, shelter or medicine. It is the safety net’s safety net. And since asylum seekers began arriving in large numbers in 2019, it’s been one of the only ways to keep them afloat while the federal […]
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Commentary: Maine lawmakers, regulators made child care as expensive as it is today
The state needs to examine regulations rather than continue to throw money at an industry that is rapidly disappearing, to the detriment of Maine’s economy.
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Eduardo Porter: Fentanyl will win the war on drugs
So let’s say the United States labels Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, like so many Republicans are demanding. Let’s say it deploys “cyberwarfare” and missile strikes against its kingpins, declares war against the cartels and sends troops across the border, whether the Mexican government agrees or not. Then what? Here’s what: Fentanyl keeps killing Americans; […]
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Nicholas Goldberg: Trump’s up in the polls. How can that be?
I guess it’s possible that Republicans really don’t care about Donald Trump’s run-ins with the law. Maybe, despite the numerous allegations, investigations and charges against him — for rape, for defamation, for seeking to subvert the 2020 election, for his role in the Jan. 6 assault, for falsifying records about hush money payments — he […]
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Our View: Give landmark housing law a chance to work
As the housing crisis mounts, Maine shouldn’t neuter a law designed to help relieve it.
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Commentary: To support our state’s children we must support their families
Dozens of organizations across Maine are trying new “whole-family” strategies with a view to improving child welfare. Results so far have been promising.
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Douglas Rooks: Toll from Supreme Court’s abortion decision keeps rising
Justice Samuel Alito is apparently not done yet. After overruling the two-generations-old precedent established by Roe v. Wade, demolishing it in his Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization opinion last year, Alito is undeterred by the national turmoil he’s created. Toward the end of this year’s term, he’s striving to increase it. The Dobbs decision reversed a […]
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Our View: Rainstorm shows how climate change will hit home
More frequent and more intense storms are already a reality. Without meaningful action on climate, they will worsen.
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Commentary: Maine must urgently change the rhetoric about education
At one time, our state leaders talked about enticing the ‘best and the brightest’ into education. We have since strayed dangerously far from that vision.