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Maine Compass: Work permits for asylum applicants? Slow down

by Jonette Christian February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

We need more data on how long it takes most refugees to make enough in wages to support their families without taxpayers’ help.

by Charles Todorich February 6, 2020February 5, 2020

A recent jibe by NBC’s Chuck Todd is the latest salvo in the half-century assault on the intellectual respectability of religious belief.

by John Manoush February 1, 2020January 31, 2020

History shows that in most cases, a destructive human activity is halted only after great harm has already been done.

by Garrett and Jeff Murch January 29, 2020January 30, 2020

The bipartisan Land for Maine’s Future program is endangered by the toxic politics seeping into our political culture.

by Nancy A. Foss January 26, 2020January 24, 2020

Today, the attacks on abortion providers are most often in the courts and state legislatures.

by Afton Hupper January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

A group seeking to restrict offshore leases is starting a feud among interests that should be working together.

by Mary E. Small January 20, 2020January 27, 2020

A former state senator argues that the company is more than meeting the hiring goals imposed when it received a tax break.

by Thomas J. Brown January 20, 2020January 17, 2020

We should keep Martin Luther King Jr. Day front and center in our lives, every day, every year.

by Gordon L. Weil January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

A referendum is a way to act on a proposal to create a public utility while reducing the ability of investor-owned ones to kill it.

by Angel Melvin January 12, 2020January 10, 2020

By blocking the student workforce from receiving minimum-wage hikes, the system favors its bottom line over its mission.