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Columns

Published
September 29, 2018

Maine Voices: Upgrade USM’s name to the University of Maine at Portland

The sooner this happens, the better it will be for students, graduates, faculty, employers and the community.
Published
September 28, 2018

Sexual assault survivors ask senators: Locate your humanity and hear us now

Elevating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would place our rights in the hands of a credibly accused perpetrator.
Published
September 28, 2018

Commentary: How we’re making climate change even more expensive

It's not just the potential disruptions to weather systems, agriculture and coastal cities; it's that we may respond to those problems in stupid and destructive ways.
Published
September 28, 2018

Commentary: Bill Cosby’s sentence tells would-be sexual predators that society takes such crimes seriously

For too long, powerful men have escaped accountability for sexual misconduct involving less powerful women, but that tolerance seems to be fading.
Published
September 28, 2018

Maine Voices: Spotlight stays on rape survivors as perpetrators, enablers evade scrutiny

Expecting people who have been hurt to keep revisiting their trauma will not foster a much-needed cultural shift or hold rapists accountable.

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Published
September 27, 2018

Maine Voices: Base confirmation of Kavanaugh on his superb record over past 35 years

It's unfair to judge who he is today by how he may – may – have behaved in a stupid moment of his youth.
Published
September 27, 2018

Commentary: Confirmation of Kavanaugh would jeopardize important consumer health care protections

He has declined to state his view on pre-existing conditions coverage and has let religious groups stand in the way of contraception care.
Published
September 27, 2018

Dana Milbank: Amid tirade against most of world, Trump gets foreign leaders laughing – at him

Officials at the U.N. shake their heads, shrug and chuckle as America's insulter-in-chief creates a spectacle of boasting, name-calling, taunting and disrespect.
Published
September 27, 2018

Rep. Berry: CMP power line project a bad deal for Maine, would hurt clean-energy efforts

Besides negative environmental impacts, there is no clear economic benefit for the state and no clear evidence of greenhouse gas reductions.
Published
September 26, 2018

Leonard Pitts: Too many of us rationalize sexual assault while survivors live in pain

Some even say an attack should be expected, which is one reason why so many rapes are never reported.