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Columns

Published
April 24, 2015

M.D. Harmon: Helicoptering parents and police need to let kids be ‘free-range’

Maryland police overreact in a case involving two sisters walking home from a park without an adult.
Published
April 24, 2015

Maine Voices: Bill aims to stop harassment of Mainers by out-of-state debt buyers

L.D. 1092 needs to be passed into law to protect Maine borrowers from predatory practices.
Published
April 23, 2015

Alan Caron: Great Northern mill tax scam is just the tip of the iceberg

Maine is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and politics is the problem.
Published
April 23, 2015

Maine Voices: Proposed cuts to public health agencies will hurt obesity prevention

Reducing access to social safety nets contributes to the epidemic that afflicts 30 percent of Mainers.
Published
April 23, 2015

Dana Milbank: Senators take baby steps across the aisle, but bonhomie is short-lived

Compromise on a human-trafficking bill boosts bipartisanship until bickering begins over who should get the credit.

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Published
April 22, 2015

Leonard Pitts: ESPN reporter’s nastiness reflects cultural delusions about fame

Britt McHenry's ranting at a tow yard clerk shows the pitiful side of our society's celebrity worship.
Published
April 22, 2015

Maine Voices: Timely graduation could help cut UMaine student debt

The '30 a year will get you there' campaign addresses the fact that the amount owed rises for each extra year it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.
Published
April 22, 2015

Greg Kesich: Great Northern mill ‘rescue’ no boon to Maine, though investors pocket millions

What if the state had spent $16 million in Millinocket and East Millinocket instead of supporting a tax credit program?
Published
April 21, 2015

Maine Voices: Maine’s public workers deserve cost-of-living pension adjustments

A bill before the Legislature would restore the annual adjustment for the retirees as a matter of law.
Published
April 21, 2015

Kathleen Parker: Challenge of abortion rights issue shouldn’t rest on Hillary Clinton alone

Women on the left and on the right may find that they have more common ground than expected.