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January 10, 2021

Our View: Small-business growth is the recession’s cure

The job loss in 2020 was worse than any recession in the last 50 years and will take extraordinary action to bring jobs back.
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January 10, 2021

The Maine Millennial: Vaccine offers welcome relief

A dose of protection is a great way to start a new, post-COVID year.
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January 10, 2021

Jim Fossel: Backroom deals are the wrong way to govern

Lawmakers in Augusta should study how Congress handled COVID relief – and do the opposite.
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January 10, 2021

Maine Voices: Wounds of Trump years run deeper than politics. Are we ready to heal?

The United States of America still has to reckon with the darkest eras of its past and to inclusively and equitably reconstruct what America can and ought to be.
Published
January 10, 2021

The View From Here: Watching democracy come unglued

The assault on the U.S. Capitol looks unpleasantly familiar to an expert in Balkan politics.

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Published
January 9, 2021

Commentary: Families get long-term boost from support that focuses on both generations

Households that were struggling before COVID are gaining from access to counseling and education for parents and early learning for kids.
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January 9, 2021

Another View: Focus on restraining President Trump until he’s gone

He has said he’d go along with the transition on Jan. 20 – but there is no guarantee he will do so, and he could do a lot of damage in the coming days.
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January 9, 2021

Maine Voices: Tepid response to Capitol mob attack signals strategic law enforcement failure

This is what happens when everyone insists on retaining their traditional operational sovereignty. Everybody’s in charge, so nobody’s in charge.
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January 9, 2021

Commentary: Rudy Giuliani has been down this riot road before

The man who urged ‘trial by combat’ Wednesday egged on a massive 1992 NYPD protest over a Black mayor’s moves toward police accountability.
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January 9, 2021

Commentary: The conservative case for impeaching Trump now

When the chief executive of the federal government incites an attack on the legislature, party differences should fall away.