When very young children kill, it prompts soul-searching among adults – but very rarely any criminal charges.
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Maine Voices: Time for Yarmouth to move ahead with inclusionary zoning
A proposed ordinance requiring developers to allocate 10% of units as affordable would be predictable and flexible and would equalize opportunity for all residents.
Commentary: Parents Defending Education is not at all what it says it is
The national conservative group and others like it are conniving to destroy public schools.
Dick Polman: False equivalence cops on the Biden classified documents case
When news broke the other day that President Biden’s lawyers had found a few documents with classified markings in a think-tank office he once used, we all knew that MAGA’s false equivalence cops would spring into action. Their predictable message, aimed primarily at low-information nitwits: Trump is innocent because he and Biden did the same […]
Michael Reagan: Cleaning out Joe Biden’s dirty garage
Don’t worry, America. Big Media will never let Joe Biden get away with illegally taking classified documents from the White House in 2016 and stashing them at his office and in his garage next to his Corvette. The ace reporters at liberal places like the New York Times, CNN and NBC are already digging deep […]
Commentary: 50 years after Roe v. Wade, we must take abortion into our own hands
The consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization are especially severe for low-income, Black, Indigenous and other people of color.
Commentary: Mainers could benefit from lithium boom if state politicians allow it
For a variety of reasons and ends, the U.S. needs battery materials. Maine has at least one handsome stockpile. Onerous mining regulations stand in the way.
Another View: ‘Three Amigos’ summit over, hard work of U.S., Mexico and Canada policymaking begins
These three countries share problems so immense that they are best solved by working together.
The Conversation: How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s words enables more, not less, racial division within American society
THE CONVERSATION — U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race. In the protracted battle to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, Roy, a Republican, nominated a Black man, Byron Donalds, a […]
Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis
Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.