Young Mainers are grappling with the toughest of choices: to leave or stay in the place we call home.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: How Maine can bridge workforce skills gap
While the state has already made some sensible investments in our students, we can do more.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Ask and ye shall receive
I don’t know the person who’ll be receiving my donated left kidney. I’m just glad they’ll receive it.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: What if we were to teach dialogue in our schools?
Building the capacity for dialogue requires mutual respect, care, a deep sense of curiosity and the courage to speak up and to learn from others. We need more of all of these qualities.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Inflation should not take center stage this election
When we act as if elected officials have responsibility for the host of economic variables that got us here, we let the ungovernable distract us from the governable.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The time I fell asleep at the wheel
Any difference between me and the former corrections officer recently found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a 9-year-old Standish girl is minuscule.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Analysis: How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ mobilizes conservative religious voters
Campaigns to prevent tax dollars from funding abortion have kept anti-abortion activists and other Republican voters engaged for decades – even when a ban on legal abortion seemed unlikely.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: The national debt is getting spookier
We always spend freely when a crisis comes along, and we never tighten our belts when it’s over.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Mills far outperforms LePage on environmental matters
To this day, the former governor still doesn’t understand that the health of Maine’s environment, people and economy are deeply connected.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: ‘Nation’s report card’ reveals more about state of education than about the pandemic
Other retired Maine educators and I believe we have a bigger problem: curricula that emphasize plowing forward with lessons even when the basic skills aren’t in place.