The parties’ ways of discussing education reflect a larger difference in how they perceive social relations in America.
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Maine Voices: Blazing a trail through the history of Portland parks
Created after the Great Fire of 1866, Lincoln Park was the city’s first, a symbol of fortitude as well as a firebreak. Now there are a total of 68 for enjoyment at any time of year.
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Letter to the editor: Why I left the MSAD 75 School Board
In 2021, under the leadership of Chair Holly Kopp, MSAD 75 School Board hired a guided series of workshops to improve our cooperation, civility and respect for one another in 2021. We voted on a new policy to call one another out if a board member broke one of our policies in board meetings. When […]
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Clarence Page: In State of Disunion, Joe Biden wrestles with rowdy Republicans
President Biden’s raucous rivals turned themselves into props for his arguments to keep their hands off Social Security and Medicare, countering their painting him as too out of touch.
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Elwood Watson: Underestimate Biden at your own peril
Let’s face it, when Fox News gives Democrat a B+, you know they really delivered an exceptional performance. That was the grade the rabidly right-wing media network gave President Biden on his State of the Union address. As someone who usually doesn’t watch these annual speeches to the nation, I did buck my previous trend […]
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Maine Voices: Coach Raff isn’t one to talk about what he’s done for the RSU 21 community. So I will.
For over 40 years, Joe Rafferty has been there behind the scenes for his players, his students, his neighbors and, more recently, his constituents.
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Commentary: COVID emergency declarations are ending. But the health care worker crisis isn’t.
The pandemic has added to the shortage and burnout of health care workers. Still, cause exists for some optimism: For one thing, there is bipartisan interest in tackling this issue.
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Jase Graves: I’ve been blinged
On a recent family vacation to New York City over the holidays, I brought home exactly one souvenir (I ate the others). While we were freezing our philtrums at the Bryant Park Winter Village Holiday Market in Midtown Manhattan, I was teen-pressured by my three daughters into purchasing a “manly beaded bracelet.” (I’m pretty sure […]
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Maine Voices: Silence of our state’s senators on human rights violations equals complicity
Angus King and Susan Collins should hold Israel to the same standard that they now hold Russia.
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Commentary: Mandate for group homes could devastate Maine’s recovery community
Requiring recovery residences to spend money on installing sprinkler systems means that far fewer will open and some will close – all amid an overdose crisis and a housing shortage.