Americans’ work ethic, and especially Mainers’, is still as strong as ever. And as we celebrate the upcoming Labor Day weekend, it’s appropriate to take time to honor laborers of all kinds, never take them for granted and recognize they’re all essential. Without the workers that manufacture, grow, transport, care for, clean, cook, teach, serve, […]
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Mainewhile: Masks are our children’s only defense
My family took a lot of road trips when I was little. My memories of those trips involve a lot of singalongs, getting passed from one lap to another and curling up on a blanket in the way back when I got tired. There was no car seat. Heck, there were no seat belts. My […]
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Through My Lens: We own the outcome in Afghanistan
What happened in Kabul this week reminded me of what happened in Mogadishu in 2006, and the years to come for Afghanistan seem scarier than ever. In 2006, only five years after the U.S. troops went into Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, an armed Islamic group who called themselves Al-Shabab stormed into Mogadishu, […]
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Superintendent’s Notebook: Portland Promise supports teaching and learning priorities
After more than a year of hybrid and remote learning, Portland Public Schools students will return soon to full-time, in-person instruction. We’ll welcome them back with clear teaching and learning priorities organized around the goals of the Portland Promise, our strategic plan. These teaching and learning priorities are key to our students’ success and aligned […]
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Forum: Mainers would benefit from offshore wind projects
Maine’s working families have been closely paying attention to announcement after announcement along the East Coast about projects that are delivering on the economic potential of offshore wind energy development. In Massachusetts, the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project is creating roughly 500 new union construction jobs. A $350 million, 600,000-square-foot complex along the Hudson […]
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Here’s Something: An overabundance of caution is our undoing
By now, 17 months since that fateful Ides of March 2020, when Gov. Janet Mills shut down the Maine economy to essential services only in a vain attempt to stem the coronavirus surge in local hospitals, I bet everyone has had a run-in with someone, somewhere regarding COVID-19 protocols. I’ve had a few, but yesterday, […]
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Mainewhile: Women making strides at the Olympics
We were sitting around the dining room table the other night talking about the Olympics and the conversation wandered to the original games in ancient Greece. Among some of the more bizarre and gruesome bits of trivia and history was the relatively “common knowledge” nugget that the original games were played entirely in the nude. […]
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Life Unwound: The ripple effect of small acts
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart I followed my young children, turning off lights as they left rooms. It concerned money. I thought about the electric bill, which my husband said saved only a few pennies. Then I […]
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Through My Lens: Those who refuse vaccine are un-American
What is nerve-wracking to me about the debate by the unvaccinated is how spoiled many Americans seem. At first I thought it was just funny to see Americans being picky and selective about their food, clothes, what stickers they put on their cars or laptops and what colors they paint their bedrooms. I did not […]
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Mainewhile: In support of death with dignity
A good friend lost a good dog last night. Angus was one of those kind souls who was always there for his people with a smile, a wag and eyes that held great depths of soul. He loved his pack and his pack loved him. He lived a long and good life filled with woody […]