An Albion couple evicted from their home caught the governor’s attention, but there are many more like them who could use a hand.
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Our View: Foot-dragging no way to ease drug toll in Maine
Policymakers have fallen behind law enforcement, the medical community and treatment providers in addressing the opioid crisis.
Our View: These lives are American in all ways but one
Undocumented immigrants who came here as children deserve a legal status that reflects that they are part of this country.
Our View: Later school starts could put money in our pockets
We shouldn’t continue to ignore the mounting evidence that starting school later in the morning has many benefits.
Our View: Decline in health tied to decline in workforce
Many prime-age workers who lost their jobs during the recession are too sick to rejoin the labor pool.
Our View: What an actual crisis looks like
Before the hurricane hit, congressional Republicans were ready to defund disaster relief in order to build an ineffective and expensive border wall.
Our View: With whaling gone, whales face a different kind of man-made threat
Overfishing once doomed the right whale. Now, it looks like climate change may be pushing them into different, more dangerous waters.
Our View: Pledge to serve matters more than gender identity
The courts may have to stop the president from rejecting patriotic volunteers for political reasons.
Our View: Medical marijuana deserves a chance to relieve pain
It is a screwed-up system that hands out billions of powerful opioid painkillers but won’t even explore a viable alternative.
Our View: Trump’s law-and-order vision lacks due process
The pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio pardon makes it harder to believe that this is a nation of laws.