Portland needs to preserve its professional city-manager form of government, which, among other things, keeps radical ideologues in check.
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Commentary: It’s vital for us to keep the port in Portland
The negative effects of ballot Question E – to limit cruise ships – don’t stop at unemployment and gentrification.
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The humble Farmer: Global warming’s impacts hitting home ever faster for former snowbird
Had I not seen it, I would not believe that one storm could raise the water so high as to make miles of Florida coastline unfit for buildings.
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Maine Voices: A boomerang reconsiders what ‘from here’ means
Gift economies occur within stable clans and exchange economies characterize relationships among transient people.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letters to the editor: Gubernatorial race; who’s to blame
Maine gubernatorial race As Governor Janet Mills enters the final weeks of her campaign for a second term, the Republican Governors Association is running a TV advertisement against her specifically about her purported education policies and programs. I am a retired attorney who was for many years a member of the Maine Council of School […]
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Just a Little Old: Lasting lessons from Hurricane Ian
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. a part of the main.” – John Donne After hurricane Ian smashed Florida’s Gulf Coast, I called my sister Martha who lives in Venice, Florida. As it happened, her husband Karl was recovering from heart surgery in a Sarasota […]
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Danny Tyree: Have you hugged an etiquette expert lately?
“Were you raised in a barn?” I never had the legendary Mrs. Montgomery as a teacher; but she was a senior class adviser and I needed her input on a school program script, so I made the rookie mistake of assuming her wide-open door meant I could forego the formality of knocking. Thus, the piercing […]
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Gordon L. Weil: Walker election could pave way to ‘failing state’
Herschel Walker could bolster U.S. chances of topping Belgium. It’s not about football. The odd mix of Walker and a world record held by the European country echoes the classic story of a student in Poland, told to write about the elephant, who amazingly came up with an essay entitled “The Elephant and the Polish […]
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Commentary: An NYU professor got fired. Then everybody missed the point
When Maitland Jones Jr. lost his job teaching organic chemistry to pre-med students, it seemed to encapsulate something wrong with higher ed.
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Superintendent Botana: ‘Yes’ on Question 5 will let Portland school board do its job
Let Portland Public Schools and school board members focus on students’ needs in the budget process without City Council second-guessing.
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