‘Bills evolved when Maine innkeepers started charging people from Massachusetts so much that they couldn’t look them in the eye.’ A lot else has evolved, too.
opinion
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Stubborn labor market challenge calls for a little tenderness
In this unprecedented workforce crunch, it’s better for the customer to be patient than to be right.
advertisement
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Companies, Congress should step up to support breastfeeding moms
For Black women like me, the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration still lag those of our counterparts.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion, Uncategorized
Giving Voice: Gathering Place golf tournament tees off to benefit unhoused
We have cause for celebration this week. Last Monday, The Gathering Place held its inaugural golf tournament. It was held at the Highland Green golf course through the generosity of John Wasileski, developer of Highland Green, and it was a great success. It appeared that everyone there had fun, the players and the volunteers who […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Dick Polman: For America’s best lawyers, Trump is a leper
I’ve had some good yuks lately – starting with quack doc Mehlmet Oz screwing up his Man of the People Act in the “Wegner’s” supermarket, and lightweight Jared Kushner getting reviewed for his new book: “Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one…Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: For ‘banana republic’ elements, look no further than Trump’s presidency
Shortly after his election, a new book notes, he tried to subvert the military for political ends. His generals refused to go along.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power
The signal from Tehran is that enemies of the regime can be attacked anywhere, even in the U.S., even decades after the regime first put a target on their backs.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Short-term rental proposal shortsighted on islands, elsewhere
The story of my cottage on Peaks is the story of countless island, lake, hunting and fishing cabins all over Maine.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Douglas Rooks: Alito’s arrogance may cost Supreme Court dearly
Samuel Alito seems to think he’s sitting on the top of the world. Fresh from his “triumph” in obliterating a half century of protection for legal abortion, he gave a speech in Rome on July 28 aptly demonstrating his enormous self-regard, what’s sometimes called “the arrogance of power.” His theme was religious liberty, but the […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Danny Tyree: Are you losing sleep over slumber parties?
“Anxious parents are no longer allowing their kids to go to slumber parties,” announced a blurb in the August 16 “New York Post.” Slumber parties are not usually one of the top subjects on my mind in the morning (“Got my keys, got my snack, got my wallet, got a great ‘is your refrigerator running?’ […]