Traveling internationally as a teacher and a coach, I saw firsthand the need for vigilance – particularly by and on behalf of young people.
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Conversation: Kansas vote for abortion rights highlights disconnect between majority opinion on abortion laws and restrictive state laws being passed after Supreme Court decision
Kansans overwhelmingly voted, 59% to 41%, to maintain the state’s constitutional right to an abortion in a referendum held on Aug. 2, 2022. The referendum’s result, by which voters made their opinions directly known on abortion, highlights the disconnection between public opinion and restrictive state abortion laws passed by many conservative state legislatures after the Supreme Court […]
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Maine Voices: Watching the baptism of a beach kid
What a joy it is to witness a happy first foray into the sea.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: If Kansas can defend abortion rights, so can everybody else
Voters turned out en masse and handed a stunning rebuke to anti-abortion legislators.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Mega-mergers can be nightmarish. Just ask Stephen King.
When power becomes consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, the market gets skewed, and workers and consumers ultimately suffer.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: What if the balance demanded by the Fairness Doctrine could exist today?
A frequently chaotic and polarizing media landscape could benefit from an updated version of the broadcasting rule.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: A summer camp of our own making
From farming and grocery shopping to decorating cakes and staffing produce stands, visiting Gram’s house gave me more than any organized program ever could have.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Democracy is hard. It’s supposed to be.
The U.S. political system tries to teach the advantages of bargaining with others and working out compromises.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Brittney Griner sentence leaves us waiting and hoping for a nightmare to end
The U.S. must do all it can to bring Griner, and other Americans held in Russia, back home. Trouble is, ‘all it can’ doesn’t seem like enough.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: More summer homework for Portland Public Schools
The latest data on racial and other biases fuel an ongoing crisis of confidence.
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