The Republican Party is too beholden to the National Rifle Association to question the premise that firearms are good, and the more, the better.
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Our View: Apprentices key part of the answer to Maine’s workforce problems
An increasingly popular state program shows how employers have to help produce more qualified workers.
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Kate Snyder: I’m prepared to provide Portland with steadying leadership
As a former school board chair who now leads a nonprofit that generates non-taxpayer revenues for public education, I have experience balancing civic aspirations with fiscal discipline.
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Maine Voices: Ranked-choice voting won’t complicate presidential nominating process
It’s up to the party to decide how the voting results will be used to allocate convention delegates.
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Commentary: Only one Democratic debate night this month, but will it be any better?
Allowing more debate and fewer questions would go a long way toward making the evening more informative.
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Maine Voices: It’s time to decide what kind of park we want Fort Gorges to be
Rather than commercializing it, let’s preserve the fortification’s unique beauty and the island’s raw and rugged character.
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Kathleen Parker: Earth’s lungs belong to the world
The international community has a duty to help the Amazon.
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Our View: All schools have a duty to confront racism
Edward Little High School in Auburn, subject of a recent Boston Globe Magazine article, is by no means the only school struggling to help students amid an uptick in racial tension.
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Maine AFL-CIO director: Workers are getting restless, and politicians better listen
Corporate profits and worker productivity have soared, but wages have stagnated – and people have had enough.
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Our View: Younger workers giving unions hope
Millennials, who came of age during the Great Recession, are not as reluctant as their elders to organize.