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Columns

Published
August 30, 2020

Maine Observer: With the write stuff, COVID can bring you closer to your kin

For one grandfather, letters on personalized stationery bridge the distance between Kennebunkport and Florida.
Published
August 30, 2020

Bill Nemitz: With Maine’s latest COVID-19 outbreak comes a question: Who’s liable?

Assigning legal culpability for spread of the pandemic isn't as simple as it may seem.
Published
August 30, 2020

Jim Fossel: Pandemic highlights conventions’ shrinking relevance

We carry on with these archaic traditions every four years, but they rarely make much of a difference in either that specific election cycle or national politics.
Published
August 29, 2020

Maine Voices: The school/college reopening conundrum – face-to-face or remote learning?

We need appropriate distance education tools, not as fallback approaches, but rather as an effective and desirable alternative.
Published
August 29, 2020

Commentary: Colleges’ move away from standardized testing during COVID should be permanent

When schools adopted entrance exams, they believed it put every student on a level playing field. But that’s never been true.

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Published
August 29, 2020

The humble Farmer: Three’s a crowd when Google talking machine comes to dinner

My wife, The Almost Perfect Woman, doesn’t know which one of us is asking the silly questions.
Published
August 28, 2020

Maine Voices: ‘What’s in it for all of us?’ is the right metric to live by

Respecting our community – picking up beer cans, wearing masks, picking up after dogs – is a habit that’s easy to drop without practice.
Published
August 28, 2020

RNC chairwoman: Democrats don’t want to play by the same voting rules

They’re in courtrooms across the country trying to strip away voting laws on the books.
Published
August 28, 2020

Sen. Breen: Fight for American women’s voting rights was generations-long battle

There are few clear-cut heroes or villains in the story of ratification, which features some events that fill us with pride and others that bring shame.
Published
August 27, 2020

Commentary: Reality belies Republican convention’s glowing reviews for U.S. economy

Trumpenomics seems to have brought transitory and sometimes dubious gains at the expense of long-term growth.