No one can avoid sorrow forever, but time has mercy all its own.
Greg Kesich
Our View: Celebrate with New Mainers on World Refugee Day
The people strong and brave enough to leave their homes are great additions to the place they now call home.
Maine Voices: Gardens can’t grow without bees and other bugs
Pesticides and herbicides have cut populations of as much as 80 percent of insect species around the world,
The View From Here: Living in Robert Bork’s America
Cheap shot or prophesy? What Ted Kennedy warned us of 35 years ago has come to pass.
Maine Observer: Learning to love the sounds of a foggy beach
A tall-tale for tourists captures a piece of the truth when the mist gets thick.
Our View: Between freedom’s promise and deliverance there’s Juneteenth
The holiday that celebrates the end of American slavery is also a reminder of how far we have to go.
Jim Fossel: As with many things, Biden got it wrong on inflation
Following their leader’s misdirection, Democrats are getting lost as they search for ways to counter it.
Insight: There’s no single ‘religious view’ on abortion
A scholar of religion writes that views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
Maine Voices: From under a desk, a silent student bears witness with a poem
The children are watching, a teacher pleads, and they can see we are not keeping them safe.
The Maine Millennial: Buying a house is not a solo project
It took good advice and supportive family to help a rugged individualist strike out on her own.