State refund checks will help offset inflationary pressures on households, but higher prices are not our only problem.
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Our View: Don’t wait to fix Maine’s indigent defense
A lawsuit alleges what many observers of our system for hiring lawyers for the poor have found: The system is broken.
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Our View: ‘Standing with Ukraine’ means more than vodka boycott
Bipartisan unity, not a no-cost, symbolic gesture, is the way to put pressure on the regime in Russia.
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Our View: Maine should not miss chance to make utilities better
But a consumer-owned utility may remain the goal even as companies and regulators are put on notice that performance must improve.
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Our View: Russian invasion of Ukraine a direct attack on postwar order
Ukraine’s military and people will bear the brunt of the attack, but Americans have every reason to support the country’s rights under international law.
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Our View: Maine should take a shot at tackling student debt
Government policy needs to look forward and backward. Two proposals before the Legislature would do just that.
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Our View: Maine should recognize inherent rights of Wabanaki tribes
Tribal sovereignty was bargained away unfairly more than 40 years ago, and the Indigenous people in the state continue to suffer for it.
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Another View: Community groups ready to partner with Maine schools on climate education
The organizations were added to L.D. 1902 specifically to help low-resource districts tap into competitive funding sources.
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Our View: Black history essential to the American story
States that want to erase the shameful parts of our history will also erase some of our greatest achievements as a nation.
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Our View: Bill could give Maine better utilities
Maine’s power utilities have lost the public’s confidence, and so have their regulators at the Maine PUC.