You can’t count on gifts like the one in Westbrook – instead, taxpayers should press Maine schools to take part in federal programs that feed kids and cut meal debt.
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Our View: U.S. birth rate plummets as cost of children soars
Given the lack of support for families, it’s hard to blame millennials for forgoing having kids.
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Our View: Congress should start over with a better Farm Bill
Growing and eating healthy foods should be the prime focus of federal agriculture policy.
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Our View: ‘Opt-out’ fallout includes Westbrook chicken pox outbreak
A three-week quarantine for some day care charges shows the impact of forgoing immunizations.
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Our View: Republican hardball puts key services at risk
People with intellectual disabilities are being used as leverage to kill Medicaid expansion.
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Our View: Help lost young Mainers realize their potential
The state’s youth employment push should focus on apprenticeships, job training and health care for the thousands age 16 to 24 who are neither working nor in school.
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Our View: U.S. getting low marks from foreign students
Maine isn’t immune as competition, cost and Trump-era immigration policies drive down overseas enrollment, forcing programming and job cuts.
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Our View: How to treat addiction like a chronic disease
A program that starts treatment in the ER has come to Maine, and it seems to be working.
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Our View: No easy call on Haspel, as Collins-King split shows
Gina Haspel’s record is troubling, but this administration is capable of much worse.
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Our View: As midterm elections loom, voting systems still vulnerable to hacking
A Senate report detailing the 2016 Russian attacks should remind us of the risks we face in November.