Our state is in the grip of a devastating opioid epidemic. Let’s call it that.
Siobhan Brett
Staff Writer
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The long goodbye – my family, my father and Alzheimer’s
The disease’s progression tests our ties, but maybe a cure is in the pipeline so other families will not have to endure what we and many millions of others do each day.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Fostering community key to solving Maine youth mental health crisis
It’s up to us to make the young people in our cities and towns feel that they matter.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: If reelected to Maine’s Legislature, I will scratch and claw to strengthen a woman’s right to choose
The U.S. Constitution ought to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment. The Maine Constitution must, too.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: From billboards to bottles, policies speak volumes about how we want to live
In big ways and small, life really is different here in Maine. It’s up to us to keep it that way.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Democrats should scuttle the debt ceiling before America hits the fiscal brink
The debt ceiling has routinely been raised over the years, a process that used to be uncontroversial. In today’s deeply divided Congress, that has changed.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: Defeat by delay: A tale of clean energy and dirty money
The next hearing in the NECEC case won’t take place until April. Maine should not allow the national oil and gas industry to stall clean-energy development.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: A ‘yes’ on Portland’s Questions 2 and 3 is ‘yes’ to democracy
A vote for Question 2 is a vote for voter power, council power and accountable executives.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: What does a ‘bike party’ entail? I hopped on mine to find out.
Turns out a summer’s night, a full moon and 200 bicyclists in convoy in and around Portland is a recipe for success.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Are protests over Mahsa Amini’s death by Iran’s morality police a turning point?
The latest protests aren’t about electoral politics or fuel prices – they’re about regime change. That makes them feel different.