With a proposed local human rights commission, the city is confronting a deep and complex problem.
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Our View: It’s time to save Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House
It’s not enough to tear down statues that don’t align with our values. We need to put up monuments that do.
Our View: ‘Dreamers’ need more than high court’s reprieve
Immigrants who grew up in America and know no other home deserve permanent status and a path to citizenship.
Maine Voices: Rejection of LGBTQ youth can be fatal
It is time for older folks to accept young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.
Our View: Maine schools will need money to reopen
Cleaning, transportation and schedule changes will add costs to already-stretched local budgets it Congress doesn’t act.
The Maine Millennial: Imagining a summer without the Sea Dogs
We’ll probably have to wait until next year before we can eat a cold ice cream sandwich in a hot seat in the grandstand of Hadlock Field.
Maine Compass: Dad’s lessons could have made for an uncomplicated life
The writer’s father lived to see his daughters get a better life. But was it?
Jim Fossel: Bipartisan consensus possible on police reform
But as long as the Maine Legislature is not in session, no laws can pass here.
Insight: Malaga’s legacy speaks to our time
Ruthless, racially motivated actions by Maine’s government a century ago expose biases that are still with us.
Maine Voices: It shouldn’t take a pandemic to raise awareness of the ‘homework gap’
A national solution is needed to ensure that cost or lack of infrastructure won’t keep kids from accessing broadband.