the view from here – Page 4 – The Portland Press Herald

The View From Here: Party politics times five

Polling analysis suggests there are multiple political parties inside the coalitions we call the Democrats and Republicans.

Even a magazine’s puffery noted the tensions at work as Maine’s largest city looks to the future.

Seeing old friends can be a good reminder that the future has promise and the past was not always so great.

Employers are trying to fill openings, but employees are quitting at record rates.

Putting the end of slavery on par with the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a significant event.

How deep are the roots of the city’s problems? The Charter Commission will have to find out.

But if we insist on building our world around cars, we have to be more responsible about how we choose to get around.

Our minds are not computers, and memories are not data stored in files waiting to be recalled.

To make the economy grow, we need less focus on investors and more support for wage earners.

Facing a problem that’s bigger than us, trust is a survival tool.