There’s an opportunity here – if northern towns want it, that is.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: How to avert another four years of President Donald Trump
The only certain path to keeping Trump out of the White House – and the scary scenarios that could ensue – rests, yes, with voters.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Americans are moving to other states as they sort themselves by ideology
The busy moving vans represent a worrying trend.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Agency and hope needed to solve global warming
Tens of millions of people worldwide – many of them right here in Maine – are working on this problem in thousands of different ways.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Clinical trials are better at including women, but there’s a way to go
Critical differences between men and women get flattened when data is grouped together. That’s just not good enough.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Maine Republican leadership bungled budget negotiations
Although party leaders say they oppose certain policies, they’re rarely willing to put up a real fight.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Life after affirmative action demands supercharged focus on diversity
I’ve learned just as much from a diverse community of peers at Bowdoin College as I have in class. We shouldn’t be trying to ignore our differences. We should be celebrating them.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Yes, a recession is still a possibility
Predictions of a ‘soft landing’ seem both premature and hard to square with some of the data.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Jailing people for sleeping in public is no solution to homelessness
The U.S. already has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Arresting people who have no options left is just adding another tier of disenfranchisement.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi gets full FDA nod, but hurdles remain
The rollout is likely to take longer than patients and their families would like.