The major worker actions going on across the U.S. shine light on the fact that some workers – farmworkers, actors, even teachers – are considered less deserving of union protections.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Commentary: On anniversary of their founding, we must recognize value of Medicare, Medicaid
About 50% of Mainers benefit from these programs, but we still have far to go to improve our health as a nation, including improvements in life expectancy, preventable hospitalizations and infant mortality.
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Commentary: ‘Oppenheimer’ has reopened debate in the U.S. In Japan, it’s more complex
The blockbuster biopic has renewed contention on the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb. It could lead to a more useful discussion in Japan – assuming it’s ever released there.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Why so many college presidents are resigning
Could it be that the real reason is the effect that bad news will most certainly have on fundraising?
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Hate groups tear at the seams of our country
White supremacists, and the politicians who have pulled them into the mainstream, are a growing threat.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Bipartisan 2024 White House ticket? Forget it.
It’s true that voters aren’t enthusiastic about a Biden-Trump rematch, but there’s little evidence that they want No Labels’ vague alternative.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Speaker should want Trump cases to be heard
Justice is based on facts and whether lawbreaking occurred. Kevin McCarthy’s goal should be for the truth to come out.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The humble Farmer: There will be a day when you wish you’d asked questions
When you are young you don’t know enough to ask questions of your elders.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Regulators must examine wind power’s potential damage to fisheries
Foreign green energy companies are on the verge of industrializing our ocean with thousands of wind turbines, sealing fisheries and harming lobster stocks.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letters to the editor: Bowdoin College should open checkbook; Pine Tree Power peril; repair cafes
Bowdoin College is shortchanging Brunswick taxpayers Bowdoin College has $260.7 million worth of property in Brunswick that they pay absolutely no property taxes on, and that is not right. Their endowment as of 2022 was over $2.5 billion and they don’t really share it with the Brunswick taxpayers, and we would like to see that […]