greg kesich – Page 5 – The Portland Press Herald

The View From Here: Portland’s radical moment

How deep are the roots of the city’s problems? The Charter Commission will have to find out.

But if we insist on building our world around cars, we have to be more responsible about how we choose to get around.

Our minds are not computers, and memories are not data stored in files waiting to be recalled.

To make the economy grow, we need less focus on investors and more support for wage earners.

Facing a problem that’s bigger than us, trust is a survival tool.

Amazon makes it easy to shop, but it causes a lot of hardship on the other side of the screen.

Challenging the beliefs that lead to family violence is a job for everyone.

The same logic that is ending our commitment in Afghanistan should be applied to another forever war at home.

In Maine, we are still trying to arrest our way out of an overdose epidemic that keeps getting worse.

It’s everyone’s responsibility to speak up when they suspect partner violence, no matter how awkward that may be.