When I think of the ice storm, two things come first and prominently to mind. First was enduring a week without running water. We could manually flush by taking off the porcelain toilet tank lid and pouring buckets of water into the toilet tank. But that procedure meant filling many plastic gallon milk jugs at […]
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine’s rural hospital systems are suffering and urgent care is needed
As our legislators perform triage, the thousands of people on hospital wait lists are at risk of being sidelined further.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: My patients need paid family and medical leave – and so do you
The current system of unpaid leave is damaging and stressful for both the patients seeking care and the people responsible for providing that care.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Germany can teach Maine a thing or two about road safety
Personal responsibility – what a concept!
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Augusta Republicans need to stand up and oppose bad ideas
While it’s easy to say that the take-no-prisoners approach I’m recommending would be foolish, something has to change.
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The Maine Millennial: Conservatism isn’t coming for my generation
Is it any wonder millennials have embraced more left-wing policies of wealth redistribution?
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Trump’s disciples succeed, once again, in shutting down the Capitol
Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the avatar of a much broader national failure to come to terms with what’s been happening in the last two years.
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Commentary: Our farmers need all the help they can get – that includes pesticides
Legislating against chemical agents regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency imperils already-struggling growers.
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Maine Voices: It’s Mother Nature’s world – we’re just living in it
As we reflect on memories of the ice storm of 1998, we watch the current roller-coaster weather leave our immediate surroundings in utter chaos.
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Commentary: What is it about Americans that makes us football addicts?
Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on the field Monday threw the brutality of the sport into sharp relief.