Listening in order to understand the other person’s perspective is more fruitful than listening in order to refute it.
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Maine Voices: Education indicators provide path for future policy priorities
We need to start with high-quality early education and keep developing the math and reading skills that will help middle and high schoolers make key transitions.
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Another View: Record number of women in Congress, but still much work to be done
Though this election shattered glass ceilings, women still make up just around 26 percent of all congressional members.
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Sen. Hamper: The formula for rebuilding Maine’s economy is bipartisan
A Democratic governor realized that cutting taxes, controlling spending and growing jobs was a winning plan, but it took a Republican governor and Legislature to carry it out.
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Commentary: The Southern Strategy is dead. Here’s to America’s future.
The organizing principle of Republican politics hasn’t changed in 50 years.
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Our View: Millions of Americans going hungry this winter
Food insecurity in Maine, and across the country, is rising to historic levels.
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Commentary: Fifty states, 50 pandemic economies
Places that are tied to travel and tourism are less insulated, and that has important implications for government spending plans.
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Another View: Hate crime surge makes Biden pushback plan vital
He should counter punch-pulling and lies with clarity and truth.
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Maine Voices: Portland should stop stalling on new wellness shelter
People need places to sleep. Preble Street can provide them. Let’s move ahead before winter gets here.
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Leonard Pitts: Any Republican unwilling to defy Trump is unworthy of the label ‘patriot’
The silence that has greeted the president’s subversion of democracy is an astonishing display of gutlessness.