It’s hard to respond to a natural disaster when we have a president who thrives on chaos.
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Maine Observer: Missing the beach days of summers past
A beat-up chair and worn sandals were tickets to a kind of paradise.
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Commentary: COVID crisis highlights need to rethink early care in Portland
Public schools have benefited from consistent funding and coordinated policies during the pandemic – early care programs deserve the same.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Now, let’s have video from the U.S. Supreme Court
Audio hasn’t gotten in the way of oral arguments – why not let ordinary people watch them as they happen?
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Maine Voices: Open primaries should head list of crisis-driven election reforms
Closed primaries disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Mainers and enable the election of partisan legislators.
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Rep. Morales: As police-related killings, COVID infections rise, it’s time to see color
So many things must change to ensure better lives for black and brown people in our country.
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Maine Voices: Maine fusion center suit shows it’s time to confront mass surveillance
Government and big corporations are crunching our data and sorting us into different categories for their purposes.
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Commentary: Mills administration’s plan to reopen Maine relies on selective science
The Legislature must be reconvened and the plan redrawn so that Mainers get a say in the state’s economic recovery.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine is left on its own as hunger increases
The state is left out of a federal program created to put fresh, healthy food into the hands of struggling Americans.
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Commentary: Twitter’s inaction on Trump’s unfounded ‘murder’ tweets is disgraceful
The tweets about the death of an aide to ex-U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough violate the platform’s own rules and should be deleted.