R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell may be headed to prison, but the vast majority of sexual assaults never show up in court.
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Maine Voices: Welcoming new Mainers will address our labor shortage
Stalled U.S. immigration policy is limiting Maine businesses’ ability hire the workers they need to grow.
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Maine Voices: Chilling historical echoes in Supreme Court’s anti-privacy agenda
The erosion of civil liberties, tolerated by the most of the public, was how the Nazi regime took control in Germany.
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Commentary: Court’s ruling on N.Y. gun law missed the legal target
Nothing in the 2nd Amendment prevents states from regulating public gun carrying.
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Maine Voices: Students say they are losing hope, and we need to listen
Teens report that nothing can be done to fix their school and nobody cares. Can we prove them wrong?
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The Maine Millennial: Abortion ruling will change lives
Women will have to weigh wether they should risk a pregnancy when a potentially life-saving abortion is not available.
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Maine Voices: James G. Blaine, Maine and the ‘wall of separation’
It’s fitting that the Supreme Court used a Maine case to permit public funding for religious schools since the prohibition got its start with a Maine politician.
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The View From Here: No democracy without trust
Portland needs a government that reflects most people’s values, even when the work is too boring to watch.
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Jim Fossel: Dobbs decision will remake politics
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade after nearly 50 years of letting it stand as established precedent is already having immediate impact on individuals across the country. The decision – perhaps the most consequential one by the court in my lifetime – will also have political consequences, not just […]
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Maine Observer: Remembering America before greed took over
Long before $60,000 basketball tickets and for-profit health insurance, life was better.