Big-picture changes in American life are playing into Maine’s strengths.
Editorials
View from Away: No evidence for Biden impeachment inquiry? No problem.
Pressing ahead, House Republicans simply do not seem to care.
View from Away: University presidents proved spectacularly inept on Capitol Hill. Resignations should follow
On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York posed the same question to the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, proxies all for America’s liberal intellectual elite. The repeated question for Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of Penn and Sally Kornbluth of MIT from the […]
Our View: State should answer shelters’ calls for financial help
The crisis of homelessness is greater and more complex than ever. Our support of it should reflect this harsh reality.
View from Away: America’s high schoolers are running out of time
America’s high schools face a growing crisis: Millions of students who entered ninth grade in the fall of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, are set to graduate this spring, with little hope of recovering from the learning loss incurred while schools were shut. Simply put, they’re running out of time. Since the start […]
Our View: Use surplus to help out Mainers left behind – and further power economy
With the economy working very well for some and not at all for others, a targeted approach is required.
View from Away: Another court decision weakens the Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court panel handed down a decision last week that would hobble enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by holding that only the U.S. attorney general, not aggrieved citizens, can file lawsuits to enforce one of the landmark civil rights law’s key protections. The Supreme Court, which has a checkered history when it […]
Another View: GOP stands by as Trump lights political violence
It’s expected that barbs will be thrown, people called liars and opportunists and crooks. This isn’t that.
Our View: Now is Augusta’s opportunity to right gun control wrongs
The commonsense proposals blocked by our elected representatives earlier this year have to be revived and passed – for starters.
Another View: Bring informed debate back to universities
When did universities become places where people started conversing less and expressing open hostility more?