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Columns

Published
May 29, 2022

Commentary: When partisanship trumps journalistic integrity, the truth loses

It is clear that smear has carried the day when the Press Herald’s editorial page editor is willing to brand someone a liar without even calling that person.
Published
May 28, 2022

Maine Voices: Laws reducing the number of guns in our communities work – if we pass them

We don’t hear about the massacres that were prevented because Connecticut passed strict laws after Newtown. Here’s one example.
Published
May 28, 2022

Commentary: New UMaine System board chair invites faculty engagement

While we might disagree about particular decisions, we all share the same goals of providing our students with an affordable, world-class education.
Published
May 28, 2022

Commentary: Governments should stop trying to make gasoline cheaper

Fuel prices will keep rising unless demand comes down. Policymakers are prolonging the pain by pushing people toward the pump.
Published
May 27, 2022

Sen. Pouliot: Tax policy is truly in the eye of the beholder

Who qualifies for Maine’s $850 rebate reflects the Republican belief that if the government is fully funded, any excess revenues should be returned to those who contributed it.

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Published
May 27, 2022

Commentary: Transparency lacking in coverage of F3 Defense controversy

The Maine entrepreneurship nonprofit that trained F3 was denied the chance to offer an informed response to reports that racial animus motivated F3’s founder.
Published
May 27, 2022

Maine Voices: Five minutes that shook a nation – and changed too little about it

Despite our differences, each community that has suffered a tragedy like Newtown asks ourselves how many more times we must bear such horror.
Published
May 26, 2022

Maine Voices: Mental illness is one key factor in mass shootings. And we should address it now.

In our schools, among law enforcement and in our jails, we must invest in identifying and treating behavioral health issues – before the next tragedy.
Published
May 26, 2022

Commentary: Americans welcome Ukrainians, but America doesn’t

The U.S. urgently needs a better system to provide refuge to people fleeing violence and repression.
Published
May 25, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Louisiana senator made Black women an asterisk in maternal mortality report

If a third of the state is Black, and their rates of dying in childbirth are soaring, then they can’t also be part of a ‘we’ who are doing OK.