Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.
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Commentary: Insulin price cuts could lift drugmakers’ profits
New rules designed to reduce Medicaid’s costs give pharma companies incentive to be less opaque.
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Siobhán Brett: An immigration parable in Portland’s West End
How deeply strange to celebrate the years-old arrival and assimilation of people while struggling with the arrival and assimilation of people today.
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Commentary: Culture of elitism pushes Maine kids away from high school sports
Money keeps kids out of school sports. So does the often too-distant promise of playing time.
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Commentary: Maine’s ‘sunshine’ law has lost its power to illuminate
In recent years, the Freedom of Access Act process has become increasingly unreliable. If we care about transparency, we have no choice but to reform it.
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Siobhán Brett: For how much longer can the Portland diocese play dumb?
We know too much for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland to stonewall allegations of abuse. If 20 complaints can’t change that, will anything?
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The humble Farmer: Looking back on suspenseful tales of time and loss
If enough years go by, an old Maine man can learn to like country music or find the hearing aid that cost as much as he earned in the Coast Guard.
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Commentary: Private texts confirm it – Fox isn’t a news network
The communications that went public add further proof that the right-wing media network is nothing more than a hypocritical grift.
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Commentary: New England forests can sustain our climate and biodiversity – if we work together
The answer lies in an approach that leaves part of the land free from logging to maximize biological richness and carbon storage, while introducing improved management practices everywhere else.
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Commentary: Left, right are both wrong about Gov. DeSantis’ ‘Western civilization’ classes
Taught properly, the course would teach students to question everything – not a goal of the Republican governor – as well as undermining some favorite Democratic ideas, especially about race and identity.