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Columns

Published
November 29, 2020

The View From Here: Requiem for a record store

The announced closing of a Portland business is like the death of a long-lost friend.
Published
November 29, 2020

Maine Voices: To strengthen our communities, learn to listen differently

Listening in order to understand the other person’s perspective is more fruitful than listening in order to refute it.
Published
November 28, 2020

Maine Voices: Education indicators provide path for future policy priorities

We need to start with high-quality early education and keep developing the math and reading skills that will help middle and high schoolers make key transitions.
Published
November 28, 2020

Sen. Hamper: The formula for rebuilding Maine’s economy is bipartisan

A Democratic governor realized that cutting taxes, controlling spending and growing jobs was a winning plan, but it took a Republican governor and Legislature to carry it out.
Published
November 28, 2020

Commentary: The Southern Strategy is dead. Here’s to America’s future.

The organizing principle of Republican politics hasn't changed in 50 years.

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Published
November 27, 2020

Commentary: Fifty states, 50 pandemic economies

Places that are tied to travel and tourism are less insulated, and that has important implications for government spending plans.
Published
November 27, 2020

Maine Voices: Portland should stop stalling on new wellness shelter

People need places to sleep. Preble Street can provide them. Let’s move ahead before winter gets here.
Published
November 25, 2020

Leonard Pitts: Any Republican unwilling to defy Trump is unworthy of the label ‘patriot’

The silence that has greeted the president’s subversion of democracy is an astonishing display of gutlessness.
Published
November 25, 2020

Commentary: Washington’s stimulus triumph remains underrated

Hindsight shows that the CARES Act saved the U.S. economy, and how badly the country needs another round of bipartisan statesmanship.
Published
November 25, 2020

Maine Voices: We’re thankful for the courage of teachers, school staff

From behind masks and plexiglass, the virus hasn’t stopped our commitment to students or to our collective vision of the future.