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Published
January 16, 2023

Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis

Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.
Published
January 16, 2023

Commentary: Republicans want to cut Medicare. Here’s how real leaders would handle the deficit

The difference between public servant and politician has seldom been more stark than it is today.
Published
January 15, 2023

Our View: Why be cautious when we can be ambitious?

The latest budget covers what will be challenging and unusual years for the state of Maine. To look at its contents offers little indication of that reality.
Published
January 15, 2023

Commentary: Increasingly diverse U.S. workplaces will force more employers to be flexible

Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are by now common across America. So far, too many have been rigid, poorly developed and prone to failure.
Published
January 15, 2023

The Maine Millennial: Looking at Portland’s racial disparity in arrests, and weighing what it means

What I know is that bias is pervasive, even if most of us don’t think of ourselves as biased at all.

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Published
January 15, 2023

Jim Fossel: Could speaker drama happen in Maine?

If Republicans got the House majority, their own ineptitude – combined with Democratic unity and ideological cohesion – could still cost them the gavel.
Published
January 15, 2023

Maine Voices: In housing as elsewhere, central planning is no substitute for local control

The density-focused zoning legislation passed last year offered an unsettling preview of the direction we’re headed in.
Published
January 15, 2023

Commentary: Failure to invest in residential facilities leaves Mainers with nowhere to go

Maine Medical Center is currently boarding 40 or more vulnerable patients who do not require the services of an acute care hospital.
Published
January 15, 2023

Maine Voices: Reflections of a ‘from away’ after 50 years in Maine

Having watched the substantial change Maine has undergone in a half century, I'm surprised the term still has so much currency.
Published
January 14, 2023

Maine Voices: York County vaccine clinic was a master class in local teamwork

People came together at the Marshall’s vaccination site in Sanford to create an invaluable resource for the community in the pandemic. Not every rural community was so fortunate.