The negative effects of ballot Question E – to limit cruise ships – don’t stop at unemployment and gentrification.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Posted inOpinion
The humble Farmer: Global warming’s impacts hitting home ever faster for former snowbird
Had I not seen it, I would not believe that one storm could raise the water so high as to make miles of Florida coastline unfit for buildings.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: A boomerang reconsiders what ‘from here’ means
Gift economies occur within stable clans and exchange economies characterize relationships among transient people.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: COVID calculus puts too much stock in negative tests
Has the pandemic lowered the bar for common sense when we’re feeling unwell? It sure can seem that way.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: LePage’s repeated use of ‘crack pipe’ irresponsible at best
Our state is in the grip of a devastating opioid epidemic. Let’s call it that.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The long goodbye – my family, my father and Alzheimer’s
The disease’s progression tests our ties, but maybe a cure is in the pipeline so other families will not have to endure what we and many millions of others do each day.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Fostering community key to solving Maine youth mental health crisis
It’s up to us to make the young people in our cities and towns feel that they matter.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: If reelected to Maine’s Legislature, I will scratch and claw to strengthen a woman’s right to choose
The U.S. Constitution ought to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment. The Maine Constitution must, too.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: From billboards to bottles, policies speak volumes about how we want to live
In big ways and small, life really is different here in Maine. It’s up to us to keep it that way.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Democrats should scuttle the debt ceiling before America hits the fiscal brink
The debt ceiling has routinely been raised over the years, a process that used to be uncontroversial. In today’s deeply divided Congress, that has changed.