Not sexually harassing women is the minimum standard for acceptable behavior; the bar should be a lot higher.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
Maine Voices: Harbor pilots play key role in keeping port safe and open for business
A bill before Maine legislators to allow The Cat ferry to operate without a pilot’s guidance is a threat to public safety.
Maine Voices: LePage pick for environmental board would have obvious conflict of interest
Mark Dubois represents a company whose activities would be reviewed by the very board he’d sit on.
Maine Voices: When it comes to hosting wind plantations, Maine has had enough
Massachusetts is now poised to destroy what makes Maine such an attractive destination.
Maine Voices: We must provide access to full range of reproductive health care
Abortion is the only medical procedure singled out in Maine law with provider restrictions.
Maine Voices: Laws by the people, for the people
Our citizen initiative process may be imperfect, but it is pure direct democracy, without the mediation of elected officials.
Maine Voices: Candidate in 2008 got ahead of wave of public opinion on pot
Public opinion has shifted, and along with it politician opinion about legalizing marijuana.
Maine Voices: ‘Protect the Earth and treat everyone with love and kindness’
The father of a Maine climate activist killed during a cross-country walk says America deserves better than hate and short-sighted energy policies.
Special case of the ‘Dreamers’ calls for solution based on country’s values
They are fellow citizens in all but name, and we should bring them fully into the American family.
Maine Voices: Trump’s reported comments on Haiti force us to reckon with who we are
The ignorant and racist remarks ascribed to him lay bare in the starkest terms the choices before us.