Federal agents ought to know that it’s no crime to have brown skin or speak a language other than English.
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Commentary: Take to Maine’s roads – and enjoy some of the nation’s most beautiful scenery
A new law championed by Sen. Susan Collins revives a federal program that promotes and protects scenic roadways.
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Leonard Pitts: Forgiveness is the problem when it goes only one way
Who forgives black people? Forget forgiveness for wrongdoing. How about forgiveness for simply trying to live ordinary lives – like Botham Jean of Dallas?
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Lead poisoning requires a solution as big as the problem
In Maine and nationwide, young lives are being stunted at an astounding rate, and the remediation can’t be city by city or state by state.
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Commentary: Can liberals unseat Sen. Collins? It’s a test of something bigger.
Activists hope to make the Supreme Court a major voting issue for progressives.
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Commentary: Facebook just gave up the fight against fake news
The social media platform’s new policy means that nobody will stop you from posting lies there if you’re a ‘political figure.’
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: School resource officers are not just cops
As researchers have recommended, Maine should standardize the way it trains and supervises the ever-expanding duties of school-based police officers.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Kathleen Parker: Trump’s ‘favor’ is worse than Biden’s threat
What our president sought places our global diplomatic positioning in jeopardy and Ukraine’s future in peril.
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Commentary: Science-based regulation, not a ban, the best way to address vaping concerns
Don’t deprive patients of the benefits of using carefully grown medical marijuana in high-quality cartridges.
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Sen. King: Congress must follow the facts in impeachment inquiry
Evidence already on the record shows a president who can’t distinguish between the national interest and his own personal interest.