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Columns

Published
September 1, 2021

Leonard Pitts: We can’t be caught unprepared for the threat from the radical right

A failure of imagination – the inability to conceive – made the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks possible. That is a mistake we cannot afford to repeat.
Published
September 1, 2021

Commentary: Across the nation, LGBTQ people lead in COVID-19 vaccination rates

A recent report suggests that 92% of LGBTQ+ adults surveyed had received at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of July.
Published
September 1, 2021

Maine Voices: Portland-Lewiston rail would be an environmental and economic game changer

The Maine Department of Transportation has had a good plan for doing so since 2011, but has always put road projects first.
Published
August 31, 2021

Commentary: ‘Best Places to Live’ may not be the best places to live

The lack of middle class affordability in 'winner cities' is driving economic growth elsewhere.
Published
August 31, 2021

Maine Voices: Protecting children from abuse is everybody’s job

In almost every horrific case, outsiders saw something but they may not have recognized it as abuse and never reported it.

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Published
August 29, 2021

The View From Here: Paul LePage’s alternative COVID facts

It doesn’t take much imagination to see what the pandemic would have been like with a different governor.
Published
August 29, 2021

Insight: ‘Forever war’ started long before Afghanistan

The era of American military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia to support undemocratic and corrupt regimes started with Lebanon in 1958.
Published
August 29, 2021

Bill Nemitz: Welcome aboard, kindergartners. Time to buckle up.

Nothing speaks to our collective future more than that first day of school.
Published
August 29, 2021

The Maine Millennial: Republicans shouldn’t tolerate legislator’s Nazi reference

State Rep. Heidi Sampson’s ugly and specious analogy is being ignored by the leaders of her party.
Published
August 29, 2021

Jim Fossel: Biden at fault for Afghan chaos

You can both agree with the president’s decision to withdraw and strongly oppose the way he did it.