With increasing outrage, we have been reading Colin Woodard’s hard-hitting series “The Lobbyist in the Henhouse” (June 16-18). We are appalled (but not surprised) that Gov. Paul LePage and his henchmen are emasculating the Department of Environmental Protection and other state agencies that were established to protect the people and the environment of Maine. It […]
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Seaweed harvesting sustainable and no threat to fisheries
Concerns are justified, but the public should know that harvesters are acting responsibly.
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Posted inOpinion
Putting learners first?
None of the state’s ‘A’ schools uses Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen’s ‘improvement’ plan – and neither should any of the rest.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Chamber of Commerce: Aho is doing her job
There is nothing wrong with managing a state agency using values consistent with the state’s elected leadership.
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Maine Observer: Comments sting, even if they’re not meant to
You’re only young once, but you can be annoyed your whole life by the quips of patronizing people.
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Our View: LePage wins, Maine loses in Medicaid fight
No health insurance for 70,000 people, and no federal help to pay for their care. Some victory.
Posted inBusiness
Charles Lawton: A demographic meteorite is aimed at Maine
The not-yet-finished legislative session in Augusta promises to be but the opening scene of a drama that we will see played out for years to come. From the rush to use drinking to pay for health care to the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t status of revenue sharing; from the quiet, bipartisan efforts to restructure our tax system […]
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David Rohde: The global middle class awakens
Alper, a 26-year-old Turkish corporate lawyer, has benefited enormously from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule. He is one of millions of young Turks who rode the country’s economic boom to a lifestyle his grandparents could scarcely imagine. Yet he loathes Erdogan, participated in the Taksim Square demonstrations and is taking part in the new […]
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Water your gardens, yes, but remember … they may not always need it
Plants need water to keep cool, pump minerals up to their leaves and grow. And in many regions and many seasons, they can fend for themselves getting water. Used to be, they had to. It was less than a hundred years ago that garden hoses came on the scene. Before that, rainfall was pretty much […]
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Maine Gardener: News from front lines in bug wars
Maine’s bug wars are continuing. While some news is good, a lot is bad. The updates on the spotted-wing drosophila are mixed — good if you care more about fruits that ripen early in the year and bad if you are interested in growing late-season crops. “Last fall is when the spotted-wing drosophila really showed […]