Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.
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Commentary: Insulin price cuts could lift drugmakers’ profits
New rules designed to reduce Medicaid’s costs give pharma companies incentive to be less opaque.
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The Conversation: The collapse of major US banks leads to bills calling for more regulation
THE CONVERSATION — When Silicon Valley and Signature banks failed in early March 2023, government regulators rushed in to guarantee deposits and protect bank customers. Under current banking regulations, though, there was no obligation for the government to step in. Now, both Democratic and Republican politicians are making pronouncements about whether bipartisan-backed deregulation in 2018 led to the […]
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Jim Fossel: Biden budget beggars belief
If a spoiled child concocted a federal budget proposal, it’d look a lot like the one Biden just unveiled.
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John L. Micek: Shocking new data shows we can’t stop fighting hate
If you ever needed a reminder that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate, new data from the Anti-Defamation League should more than do the trick. White supremacist propaganda hit an all-time high across the country in 2022, even as antisemitic propaganda more than doubled from the year before. The civil rights group tallied […]
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Just a Little Old: Facing up to our fears
“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?” Remember that catchy song from “The Three Little Pigs,” a Walt Disney classic? How about “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” Aesop’s Fable about a boy known to be a liar who wasn’t believed when he alerted the villagers to a real wolf. And then there’s the phrase “keep […]
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Danny Tyree: Have you ever been on the radio?
Everyone should do it at least once in their life. Speak on the radio, I mean. While promoting my new book (search for my name on Amazon if you’re curious), I had the honor of being interviewed live (via telephone) on Nashville’s Super Talk 99.7. (Not that I haven’t broadcast live from a studio before. […]
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Gordon L. Weil: America has crisis of confidence
Welcome to this month’s crisis of confidence. A bank failure, the debt ceiling conflict and the proposed Maine state budget have something in common. They all raise doubt about our confidence in institutions on which we depend. The underlying cause is politics. The effect of this loss of confidence in our government may be more […]
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Letters to the editor: Mudslinging over Frank J. Wood Bridge; Need for paid medical leave; Standing with asylum seekers
Mudslinging over bridge uncalled for In a column (March 15) arguing against building a new bridge to replace the rusting Frank J. Wood Bridge, John Graham throws mud on three people who have served this community well: Cory King, executive director of the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce; Bruce Van Note, commissioner of the […]
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Tom Purcell: Wishing you St. Patrick’s Day laughter
The St. Patrick’s Day spirit has arrived, and we sure are in need of Irish levity. The economy is limping, and inflation is hitting us hard. It reminds me of the laborer who fell off a roof at a construction site: “Were you hurt by the fall?” asked his supervisor. “The fall wasn’t so bad,” […]