I’m trying to learn how a very bad, very tall man was able to simply walk out the front door of a jail.
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Maine Voices: Next top BIW official should take steps to heal breach with workers
Whoever succeeds Dirk Lesko must realize that a sense of betrayal lingers from a 1984 false alarm regarding the need to reduce wages and benefits.
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Another View: Don’t expect the Fed to work miracles
In conditions like these, monetary policy can only do so much.
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Commentary: Students’ religious freedom deserves Supreme Court’s protection
A case involving a high school coach who pressured players to pray with him is important for a nation where church-state separation is being called into question.
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Our View: 11 tons per mile? Maine has to stop using so much road salt
A new report shows how the state must rethink its winter road maintenance strategy near vulnerable waterways.
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Maine Voices: Leaked ruling overturning Roe flouts legal system’s standards
Justice Samuel Alito has failed to demonstrate any reason why the court should not be bound by its earlier decision.
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Commentary: The U.S. response to COVID hasn’t been a train wreck. We’re just average
Over recent months, events worldwide should dispel notions of exceptional American malfeasance.
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Our View: Portland-area transit agencies should stop blocking federal funds
The region needs this investment in order to improve its underperforming public transportation service.
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Maine Voices: We need a DHHS that is open to legislators, Maine’s people
Legitimate legislative scrutiny sparked by the state watchdog’s report on the Office of Child and Family Services has resulted in a circling of the wagons.
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Commentary: State courts take on gerrymandering
Stepping into a void left by the U.S. Supreme Court, recent rulings have provided an unusual degree of nonpartisanship in these polarized times.