If you’re caught off-guard by the signs of aging, you’ll be just as puzzled by a day when you feel unexpectedly good.
columns
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Legislation a first step toward a more humane, effective immigration system
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 promotes keeping families together and protects vulnerable people, such as survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.
advertisement
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Lowering voting age to 16 will give more stakeholders a say in our democracy
Today’s young people are expected to fix past generations’ mistakes, yet we don’t have the basic right to cast a ballot. L.D. 706 would change that.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy: Positives in pandemics – Extension’s role grows during COVID-19 crisis
Extension created resources to help Maine farmers and consumers and developed the capacity to analyze rapid COVID tests, while 4-H launched programs to engage with youth online.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Maine has history of withholding treatment from inmates. COVID is no exception
As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: When facts cease to matter, consequences do, too
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on what it really means to live in an anti-reality society.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Essential workers have earned the hazard pay Portland voters approved
We are proud to be keeping local people fed and healthy, but we shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the pandemic.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: U.S. vaccine hoarding is alienating the world
The world had hoped ‘America First’ would end when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as president. It hasn’t.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: D.C. statehood is a civil rights issue
This is about enfranchising the more than 700,000 mostly Black and brown people who have waited centuries for representation in Congress.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Virus keeps refusing to follow anyone’s partisan script
It ought to be clear, a year into the pandemic, that COVID-19 isn’t fake news and the U.S. isn’t a failed state.