Let Portland Public Schools and school board members focus on students’ needs in the budget process without City Council second-guessing.
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Leonard Pitts: So many seem to be having so much fun being loud and proud about their hate
It’s enough to make you wonder whether someone’s put something in the national water supply.
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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.
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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.
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Commentary: Maine still treating Indigenous tribes like second-class citizens
The state’s tribes are still waiting for access to rights and benefits enjoyed by hundreds of tribes across the nation.
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Maine Observer: Doing my bit to fight the fires of 1947
I was drafted to help the fires that ravaged parts of the state, but we had no idea of what was in store for us.
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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.
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Jim Fossel: In Maine, nationwide, this election may come down to the wire
Will voters care more about fiscal and public safety issues, or will they prioritize abortion rights and concerns about democracy?
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Commentary: The threat to democracy that no one’s talking about
Voters, of all political stripes, have much to lose from the imposition of a system of voting that forces them to pick sides and stay in their lanes.
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The Maine Millennial: Get your abortion pills before you need them
Mifepristone and misoprostol are safer than Tylenol. And by keeping them on hand, I won’t be putting my future in anyone’s hands but my own.