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Columns

Published
March 16, 2018

Maine Voices: Media mislead, stigmatize by broadly linking mental illness to violence

There are many types and degrees of mind disorders, and those who have them are rarely a threat to others.
Published
March 15, 2018

What about free speech? Or, how I got banned by the Portland Press Herald

The legacy media's defense of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech is not quite what it should be.
Published
March 15, 2018

Dana Milbank: Trump, a purger, could take lessons from the film ‘The Purge’

In the movie, the government provides a 12-hour period once a year when any crime is legal.
Published
March 15, 2018

Maine Voices: Why not turn a snow day into a work-at-home day for students, teachers?

Staying at home because of bad weather is not a reason to avoid a productive instructional day.
Published
March 14, 2018

Leonard Pitts: The problem of dealing with a vanishing ability to reason

Serious people have to stop worrying about appearing to be fair to those not interested in facts.

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Published
March 14, 2018

Maine Voices: Keep Portland’s waterfront free of nonmarine development

City officials are finally beginning to push back against the encroachment of offices and hotels.
Published
March 14, 2018

Commentary: Don’t let those who can’t get top-security clearance run for president

We give Trump access to the nation's most sensitive material even though he normally wouldn't qualify because he wouldn't be deemed trustworthy.
Published
March 13, 2018

Kathleen Parker: We’re off to the races again, and Republicans might take a licking

Early signs suggest they will have to fight to keep their dwindling majorities in the House and Senate.
Published
March 13, 2018

Maine’s House speaker: As young people press for action on gun violence, we are listening

Lawmakers, why are our kids braver when they go into school than we are when we cast our votes?
Published
March 13, 2018

Maine Voices: Proficiency-based education system? We have been here before

Maine Learning Results failed, and the present version will ultimately follow the same path.