The state’s restrictive abortion law threatens to destroy an uneasy truce among several factions of the conservative movement.
2021
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Letter to the editor: Maine food amendment is a solution looking for a problem
We already have a number of laws to promote and protect the right of people to plant and raise their own food – we don’t need to pass Question 3.
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Our View: Troubling reports of Long Creek restraint use
The state’s youth prison should not stay open if it is still using dangerous techniques it was warned about in 2017.
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Letter to the editor: Hats off to Skoglund for placing land in trust
Re: Robert Skoglund’s commentary “The humble Farmer: I’m not exactly what you might call a happy camper” (Sept. 11, Page A11): I must confess, he’s not my favorite personality writer. Sometimes I think he sounds a bit “full of himself,” as the saying goes. But I often at least skim his columns, and today he […]
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Letter to the editor: Doctors see clear benefits in COVID vaccine
There are plenty of controversies in medicine where physicians disagree with each other. Vaccination against COVID-19 is not one of them. As soon as the vaccine was available late last year, every physician I know got vaccinated, as did I and all of our families once they could. I have practiced medicine in our community […]
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Letter to the editor: Critic of vaccination should school himself on statistics
In his Sept. 5 letter (“COVID vaccine is useless, and Nemitz should know it”), Peter Petersen accuses columnist Bill Nemitz of promulgating what Petersen calls “the big lie” that the COVID vaccine works. Petersen comes to a contrary conclusion by noting that Israel and the U.S. have similar infection rates per 100,000 population despite a […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Commentary: Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisions
The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans. Rather than giving state officials, such as the police, the power to enforce the law, the Texas law instead allows […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letters: CMP corridor ads misleading; Brunswick BBQ leaves bad taste
CMP corridor ads misleading Though disgusting, it’s not surprising that CMP’s new PAC, Mainers For Fair Laws, is spending over $300,000 on deceptive TV ads in its desperation to convince Maine voters that it is in their best interest to reject Question 1 in November. Interestingly, this new organization is tackling the issue by attempting […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Superintendent’s Notebook: Strengthening core instruction in Portland schools
School this fall has not been the “return to normal” we all envisioned last June. We continue to battle this pandemic and are currently focused on fine-tuning our health and safety protocols to protect our students and staff. At the same time, we are committed to realizing our goal of continuously working to improve the […]