Many workers are forced to drop out of the workforce entirely to take care of their children and parents. If we want to be pro-family and pro-workforce, we need this kind of program.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Clarence Page: RIP, Jim Brown, your legacy is memorable but clouded
Though he may well be recalled as the best football player to put on a helmet, his arrests for abusing women should stain his history of triumphs on the field.
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Conversation: Voters want compromise in Congress — so why the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling?
THE CONVERSATION — There’s progress on the debt limit. There’s no progress. Conservatives have revolted. Liberal Democrats are angry. Negotiators actually ate a meal together. That’s a good sign. No it isn’t. Who’s up? Who’s down? Much of the breathless news coverage of the debt limit crisis relies on leaks, speculation, wishful thinking and maybe […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Michael Reagan: Memories of Memorial Day
What are you doing to celebrate Memorial Day? How will you honor the soldiers, sailors and airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep America safe, free and great for more than 240 years? My son Cameron, as usual, will take his daughters to a military cemetery and remind them who those fallen soldiers were […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Dick Polman: The Republican presidential contest is getting awfully crowded
If my math is correct, the 2024 Republican presidential contest is starting to look like the Marx brothers’ stateroom scene. Right now, I count nine or 10 active or explorative candidates: criminal defendant/convicted sexual abuser Donald Trump, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, ex-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Gov. Ron DeSantis of DeSantistan, former Arkansas Gov. […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: In praise of 40 years of Sunday softball in Portland
Until we established a home field in Payson Park, we were nomads, playing a few weeks here or there until chased off by permit-waving league officials.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: One answer to the migration crisis? Jobs.
Granting work authorization to those here on humanitarian parole isn’t the only step the Biden administration can take.
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Commentary: Social Security needs our help if we want it to deliver for us
It’s time for Congress to stop starving the Social Security Administration of the resources it needs to serve the public efficiently and effectively.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Fulfilling our responsibility to those who died for our rights
Where would we be if a lack of volunteers left empty every local board and commission, from land use to Little League?
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The stories told by yesterday’s heroes resonate today
Courage in the face of hopelessness made our lives possible – let’s not forget it.
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