What good can come of the protracted battle over the billion-dollar energy project? We could learn from it so that nothing like it transpires again.
Siobhan Brett
Staff Writer
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: How could a 21-year-old leak national security data without the Pentagon knowing?
In spite of the high-profile leaks that have occurred over the last decade, most people still don’t realize how easy it is for something like this to occur.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Clarence Page: GOP, beware. Abortion politics are firing up both sides
Let’s face it. Anti-abortion politics is about power, grievance and getting the upper hand on the other side.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: Mifepristone ruling must be fought
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Maine condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. The ruling found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration improperly approved the abortion pill mifepristone, one of two drugs commonly […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Retaliation-free listening tour can inform reform of child protection
It’s time we take advantage of the experience of those working in child protection, the people who know and understand the system.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Wall Street should tell Kevin McCarthy to extend debt limit
Democrats aren’t going to agree to McCarthy’s harsh demands. Yet the House speaker seems determined to put his energy into a probably doomed attempt to unify his dysfunctional party.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine is not meeting its obligation to children like my son
Without a critical change to the payment structure for special-purpose preschools, these schools cannot survive.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Why Clarence Thomas’s explanations fail the laugh test
It was once hard for me to believe that Thomas could be as much of a puppet of the most reactionary forces in American society as he seemed. No longer.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Opening health care coverage to immigrants can be a rising tide
Immigrant communities pay handsomely into our health care system only to have no access to it. Maine can do better.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Republicans won’t win back the youth vote with a culture war
Many conservative leaders see younger generations’ relative liberalism as the result of the pernicious influence of left-aligned public institutions and industries. It’s not that simple.