The latest budget covers what will be challenging and unusual years for the state of Maine. To look at its contents offers little indication of that reality.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Increasingly diverse U.S. workplaces will force more employers to be flexible
Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are by now common across America. So far, too many have been rigid, poorly developed and prone to failure.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Looking at Portland’s racial disparity in arrests, and weighing what it means
What I know is that bias is pervasive, even if most of us don’t think of ourselves as biased at all.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Could speaker drama happen in Maine?
If Republicans got the House majority, their own ineptitude – combined with Democratic unity and ideological cohesion – could still cost them the gavel.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: In housing as elsewhere, central planning is no substitute for local control
The density-focused zoning legislation passed last year offered an unsettling preview of the direction we’re headed in.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Failure to invest in residential facilities leaves Mainers with nowhere to go
Maine Medical Center is currently boarding 40 or more vulnerable patients who do not require the services of an acute care hospital.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Reflections of a ‘from away’ after 50 years in Maine
Having watched the substantial change Maine has undergone in a half century, I’m surprised the term still has so much currency.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: York County vaccine clinic was a master class in local teamwork
People came together at the Marshall’s vaccination site in Sanford to create an invaluable resource for the community in the pandemic. Not every rural community was so fortunate.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Hard week for right whales emphasizes urgent need for better tech
The correct technology can support a vibrant fishing industry while saving one of the world’s rarest species from extinction.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The humble Farmer: How to have a wild day without even getting out of your own dooryard
I am not the man I once was – but you try telling my wife that.