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  • Published
    April 2, 2024

    Official says proposed trans student policy change could promote harassment

    Local school district officials have chosen not to accommodate a community petition seeking to amend the district’s new anti-discrimination policy for transgender and gender-expansive students, saying the proposed change could enable bullying and discrimination. A former educator launched a petition drive in opposition to a section of the Maine School Administrative District 75 policy that requires students, […]

  • Published
    April 2, 2024

    Educators seek to curb ‘troubling’ effects of student social media use

    Chris Hoffman is adamant that the most urgent challenge facing educators today is how to curb the negative effects of social media and smartphone use on children and adolescents. “I don’t overstate this when I say I believe this is the issue of our time,” said Hoffman, principal of Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham, […]

  • Published
    April 2, 2024

    The Conversation: How Trump’s lawyers would fail my constitutional law class with their Supreme Court brief on criminal immunity

    THE CONVERSATION — Former President Donald Trump claims that the president of the United States is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution. On March 19, 2024, Trump filed his brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith for Trump’s alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump argued in […]

  • Published
    April 1, 2024

    The Conversation: Is this the least productive Congress ever? Yes, but it’s not just because they’re lazy

    THE CONVERSATION — Congress has once again been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, with multiplenews outlets in recent months touting the current 118th Congress as possibly the least productive in the institution’s history. In 2023, Congress only passed 34 bills into law, the lowest number in decades. Congress was only recently able to pass a budget bill that will […]

  • Published
    March 31, 2024

    The Conversation: Moscow terror attack showed growing reach of ISIS-K — could the U.S. be next?

    THE CONVERSATION — A deadly attack in Moscow on March 22, 2024, exposed the vulnerability of the Russian capital to the threat of the Islamic State group and its affiliate ISIS-K. But it also displayed the reach of the network, leading some terror experts to ponder: Could a U.S. city be next? There has not been a […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Your Land: Mapping vision

    Anyone walking town or city streets has grown used to it. You look up, and some yards in front of you, a figure appears, walking your way. Your paths look set to intersect. A simple adjustment will avoid collision; you realize also that you will have to be the one to make that shift. You’ve […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Sustainable Practice: Sustainable hope despite cynicism

    We live in interesting times. Is it a curse or a blessing to be part of the struggle to save our planet? If you’re overwhelmed by the responsibility, you might retreat into cynicism, give up hope, and do nothing — leaving it to others to take action. But if you invest the time to understand […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Gordon L. Weil: Budget fiasco harms U.S. economy

    In the middle of the night recently, while crises whirled around the world, the U.S. made a major policy move. Not about Ukraine. Not about immigration. The Senate simply adopted a new temporary budget bill to keep the federal government running for six more months, setting up a crisis for just before the election. During […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    Giving Voice: Shelter campaign surpasses $8 million

    Tedford Housing’s effort to fund construction of a new, consolidated shelter facility received two significant public investments in March, catapulting our fundraising total to over $8 million and kicking off the final phase of the campaign. Maine Housing awarded Tedford $257,000 under the Emergency Housing Matching Grant Program, which was established in 2023 through enactment […]

  • Published
    March 29, 2024

    LC Van Savage: Courage and guts

    Sometimes we get to see examples of human courage, and occasionally, I even catch a glimpse of my own, but not awfully often. If human wimpiness had been a required subject in school, I’d have gotten really good grades in it. I once had the honor of seeing raw grit in action. Twice. I thought […]

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