Events in two central Maine districts show that schools can’t stay open without effective COVID precautions in place.
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Commentary: Newsom crushed the California recall. Let the phony fraud probes begin
As we look back on a waste of an election that cost taxpayers $276 million, the governor should take this moment to reflect on his shortcomings.
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Leonard Pitts: A reality TV show is turning social causes into a competition. And we all lose
You know how you kill a social revolution? You turn it into a commodity.
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Our View: North Maine Woods director helped keep private lands open to public
Al Cowperthwaite has shown how to balance competing views and agendas in Maine’s vast forestland, and we all have benefited.
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Commentary: The European disease that’s mutated through the Black Death and COVID
As the biological virus attacks bodies, the mental virus of anti-Semitism infects hearts and cultures where hatred has never ceased to be endemic.
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Maine Voices: Two actions could save our children’s lives – now
Starting with kids 2 and under, all DHHS referrals should get an in-home assessment, and all open cases should receive a ‘desktop’ audit.
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Maine Voices: Our engagement in Afghanistan was not a failure until we quit
Our capitulation has swept aside considerations of future security risks, personal freedoms in the country and obligations to those we helped.
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Commentary: Texas upends the Republican ‘leave us alone coalition’
The state’s restrictive abortion law threatens to destroy an uneasy truce among several factions of the conservative movement.
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Our View: Troubling reports of Long Creek restraint use
The state’s youth prison should not stay open if it is still using dangerous techniques it was warned about in 2017.
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Our View: Coronavirus pandemic edges toward grim milestone
For more than a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the deadliest in our history, a record that will soon be broken by COVID.