Exhibit A: An FBI agent’s story about a guy named Dave and the rich online girlfriend who he’s never met in person.
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Maine Voices: What Netflix’s ‘The Chair’ teaches us about voice, representation
The show about a fictional university makes clear how much Maine’s real-life institutions will benefit from uplifting the voices of students and marginalized groups.
Commentary: The COVID-19 pandemic is harder for people with autism
We can use it to reflect on the ways that we mistreat neurodivergent humans.
Maine education chief: Let’s work together so our kids can learn in person, full time
We have the power to limit COVID’s impact on Maine students through vaccination, indoor masks at school and engagement in testing programs, Commissioner Pender Makin says.
Commentary: Even the best climate forecasts are still shaded by clouds
More certain than ever about global warming, scientists still struggle to understand the role of water in the atmosphere.
Commentary: In response to delta variant, FDA must fast-track COVID vaccine for kids under 12
Faster authorization will save tens of thousands of child hospitalizations, hundreds of child deaths and, through reduced spread, thousands of adult lives.
Maine Voices: Still cynical about changes in child care workforce – please prove me wrong
Early childhood education won’t be high-quality, affordable and well compensated until and unless it is part of the common good, just like public school.
Leonard Pitts: We’re still marching for what already should be ours
On the March on Washington’s anniversary, let’s channel the energy of the man who never ceased demanding that America be what America said it was.
Maine Voices: Opening my mind and my palate has delicious results
A taste of mulberries in a New York botanical garden introduces a Portland resident to the idea of growing them at home.
Commentary: How this enslaved man’s story could persuade more Black Americans to get vaccinated
Highlighting the historic role of an African man named Onesimus, who introduced the idea of inoculation in early America, offers a source of pride.