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Commentary: The true cost of Trump’s tariff scheme

Pundits sometimes claim that U.S. presidential campaigns are devoid of big, consequential policy ideas. That’s clearly not true this time around. Arguably the most profound policy change being proposed in this campaign is former President Donald Trump’s big idea to broadly raise tariffs on imported goods, possibly to levels the U.S. has not seen in […]

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Sen. Craig Hickman: We must protect all our children

Maine has the worst rate of child maltreatment in the nation. We can’t stand for this. Despite historic investment in recent years, key indicators on child welfare aren’t improving. Improvements haven’t come fast enough for the thousands of children without permanent homes, the burnt-out case workers watching children fall asleep in hotel rooms overnight, the foster parents […]