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Columns

Published
December 14, 2016

Leonard Pitts: The news might be bad, but here’s to those brave enough to gather it

The many who die in the pursuit provide a chilling contrast for Donald Trump's anti-media frenzy.
Published
December 14, 2016

Maine Voices: Leave your upper-class bubble and connect with working-class struggles

The book 'Hillbilly Elegy' sheds light on a broad world that the 'leadership class' tends to discount.
Published
December 14, 2016

Commentary: Despite assurance to the contrary, services to disabled worsening

Maine's cost-cutting can only be accomplished at a huge cost to the intellectually challenged.
Published
December 13, 2016

Charles Lawton: Take comparison of parent and child incomes with a grain of doubt

Despite the harmful effects of income inequality found in the study, the American Dream is not fading away.
Published
December 13, 2016

Kathleen Parker: At trial for 9 murders inside church, the ‘why’ is not fully answered

A court in South Carolina is awash in the scenes of a killer's brutality and the pain of victims' families.

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Published
December 13, 2016

Maine Voices: Mainers should shun reviled Briton who campaigned for Brexit

Citing animosity and fears for his family's safety, Nigel Farage says he is considering making a move to Maine.
Published
December 12, 2016

Maine Voices: Awareness of tipped-wage issue might have tipped balance on Question 4 vote

Voters probably didn't intend to triple tipped workers' base pay. But that can be remedied.
Published
December 11, 2016

Alan Caron: Politicians can’t bring back jobs

And anyone who says they can is just telling the public what they want to hear.
Published
December 11, 2016

Commentary: The voices of addiction

For Mainers dependent on opioids, access to medication is the key to treatment. For those without it: 'It feels like being dead.'
Published
December 11, 2016

Maine Observer: That day, there was room in the square

But as religious folk prepared separate celebrations of peace, was there room in their hearts to ignore recent words of hate?