In sports, smart coaches learn to take each opponent seriously.
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Maine Observer: Flying lobsters from Maine to Wyoming
Remember that not everyone west of here knows that lobsters don’t turn red until they’re cooked.
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Commentary: A soldier comes home, but his battles continue
A grandfather’s demons haunt his family for decades after he fought during the defining offensive of World War I.
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The humble Farmer: Don’t burn your house to cook a pig, and other lessons learned
Yesterday I witnessed two things I will never forget. One was a radiant heating system in an old house.
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Maine Voices: Upgrade USM’s name to the University of Maine at Portland
The sooner this happens, the better it will be for students, graduates, faculty, employers and the community.
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Sexual assault survivors ask senators: Locate your humanity and hear us now
Elevating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would place our rights in the hands of a credibly accused perpetrator.
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Commentary: How we’re making climate change even more expensive
It’s not just the potential disruptions to weather systems, agriculture and coastal cities; it’s that we may respond to those problems in stupid and destructive ways.
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Commentary: Bill Cosby’s sentence tells would-be sexual predators that society takes such crimes seriously
For too long, powerful men have escaped accountability for sexual misconduct involving less powerful women, but that tolerance seems to be fading.
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Maine Voices: Spotlight stays on rape survivors as perpetrators, enablers evade scrutiny
Expecting people who have been hurt to keep revisiting their trauma will not foster a much-needed cultural shift or hold rapists accountable.
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Maine Voices: Base confirmation of Kavanaugh on his superb record over past 35 years
It’s unfair to judge who he is today by how he may – may – have behaved in a stupid moment of his youth.