Both parties’ leaders missed a golden opportunity to reach across the aisle and save Congress and the country from dysfunction.
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Commentary: How to keep school shootings from happening in Maine
Let’s put our resources into programs and policies that utilize best practices in managing possible threats.
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Commentary: Maine will be a valuable partner to an independent Greenland
The world’s largest island is in the process of seceding from Denmark. Some Mainers will have front-row seats to this instructive process.
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Commentary: Too much misinformation? The issue is demand, not supply
A potentially gullible person is already flooded with more lies in a single day than he or she can possibly evaluate.
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Commentary: Portland needs elected leaders to take bold action on encampments
Until city councilors put solutions above rhetoric, nothing will change.
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Commentary: Broadband funding brings lifeline to Mainers most in need
A landmark law establishes a new paradigm for bringing broadband service to life: public-private partnerships between service providers and federal, state and local governments.
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Commentary: The Republicans are squabbling. Democrats are leading. You choose
There’s no nihilism caucus among House Democrats eager to burn democracy – and their own party – to the ground.
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Commentary: Public higher education enhances our communities in more ways than one
The success of public colleges and universities relies on public trust. We must not let that trust wane, says USM’s president.
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Commentary: Food inflation is a hardship outside the Fed’s control
Higher interest rates will do nothing to reverse the surging costs of basics such as meat or eggs. But shoring up the supply chain would help.
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Commentary: This is the missing puzzle piece to getting COVID vaccines into arms
A successful public health response requires the perspectives of individuals who have studied how to help ensure that more people get health services that work.