Because both sides think the other will get the blame if a default actually happens, this latest standoff is especially dangerous.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Stop entangling the right whale – in red tape
For the species as a whole, there is still cause for hope — as long as our elected leaders stop sidelining science-based strategies.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: What would fishing in Maine be without the wildlife?
Lead poisoning from fishing has for years been one of the leading causes of loon deaths. We want to change that.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Fox News settled Dominion’s killer lawsuit. Is the public left empty-handed?
The network paid its way out of a bruising trial. “A ringing endorsement for truth and democracy?” Not even close.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Supposed replacement for electoral college is flawed
If you’re interested in directly electing a president by national popular vote, you owe it to yourself to go about it another way.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: You don’t need to be superhuman to be an organ donor
Most people can’t imagine themselves donating an organ to a stranger, assuming someone who does it is different in some fundamental way. That’s just not true.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Rep. Ducharme: We’ve been overtaxing Mainers – the proof is in the numbers
Let’s stop extracting more money than we need to run our government.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Land-based aquaculture trade-off is too great
The pollution caused by fish farming should be rejected by everybody who has a stake in Maine’s waters.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: Offended by cartoon on parole
I was shocked by last Sunday’s cartoon on the reinstatement of parole which, to me, caricatured incarcerated community members. Presenting fellow human beings as animals is an offensive, stigmatizing trope, used in ugly ways in American history to stoke fear of enslaved people fighting to gain their freedom, of Chinese, Italian and Jewish immigrants at […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: A school with guns in it is not a safe school
Is this what a legislative response to gun violence looks like?