Through direct school-based behavioral health services, Maine students are able to learn coping and regulation skills. Those skills are needed more than ever.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Multibillion-dollar natural disasters are the new normal
The tab for rebuilding following 18 weather calamities reached $175 billion in 2022. And that wasn’t the most expensive year.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The guaranteed ‘best deal ever’ – the problem with public higher education promises
New programs that are meant to increase access to higher education actually hamper it by undercutting the very institutions that serve most students.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Jase Graves: How to ‘un-dorm’ a college student
Every year in late spring, parents of college students all over America travel to university campuses with stylish IKEA storage bags or (in our case) cardboard boxes that once held bulk orders of toilet paper and tortilla chips. When the parents arrive, they joyfully greet their academically hungover children and start the arduous and sometimes […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Maine Idea: On economic issues, progressives missing in action
By most measures, a new progressive movement in Maine ought to be taking hold. Democrats control the Blaine House, the Senate by a robust margin and the House by a comfortable one – as they have now for three legislative terms running. The LePage years of acrimonious divided government are fading into the past. Yet […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Conversation: War rooms and bailouts: How banks and the Fed are preparing for a US default – and the chaos expected to follow
THE CONVERSATION — Convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are preparing for a potential default on U.S. debt. “You hope it doesn’t happen, but hope is not a strategy – so you prepare for it,” Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank […]
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Commentary: The U.S. labor market’s best just isn’t good enough
Ample demand for workers hasn’t delivered benefits, fixed disparities or eliminated abuses.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Let’s give Mainers more ways to get there from here
L.D. 1559 would take the first step by strengthening the Public Transit Advisory Council and giving it what it needs to develop a statewide access, management and coordination plan.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Financial literacy requirements are important, but not enough
Junior Achievement can help ensure that personal finance is taught (and taught well) long before high school
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Need for extra vigilance by voters not up for debate
Mainers may or may not have known what they were doing when they enrolled with a third-party political group this year. Question marks hanging over No Labels’ activity highlight the need for caution.
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