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The View From Here: Hotel rooms no substitute for permanent housing

What Portland is forced to spend for emergency shelter would be enough to develop hundreds of affordable apartments.

The arrival of yet another big-box retailer in southern Maine is nothing to celebrate.

In its opinions in the vaccine mandate cases, the Republican majority is claiming a major role for itself in quashing regulation.

Governments are experimenting with randomly selected citizen assemblies to develop public policy ideas.

Maine Republicans were spreading the ‘Big Lie’ long before Donald Trump appeared on the scene.

Our inability to confront the climate crisis is going to be catastrophic if we give in to despair.

We are going to learn about the long-term effects of living through a crisis that never ends.

The town’s rejection of an affordable housing proposal shows why this statewide problem can’t be fixed one community at a time.

A virtual currency crash could have real-world implications.

The new film ‘Bounty’ places a genocidal policy against the Penobscot Nation in the context of Revolutionary New England.