Employees will stay longer and have a steady, reliable income to spend in a city they can afford to live in.
Maine Voices
Opinion columns submitted by the public to the Portland Press Herald.
Maine Voices: Take steps to avoid risks in hospitals and protect your quality care
Advocates can take notes and ask key questions to help cut down the risk of patients dying from a medical error.
Maine Voices: It’s important to identify things we don’t talk about openly
Race, poverty and terrorism are among the background issues underlying the headlines.
Maine Voices: Maine Children’s Alliance supports Stand Up for Students question
This citizens’ ballot initiative will ensure that the state comes closer to meeting its fiscal obligation to K-12 public schools.
Maine Voices: To fathom tourists’ impact on Peaks Island, imagine so many on Munjoy Hill
It’s time to hold a public hearing to air concerns about public safety staffing and ferry access.
Maine Voices: Study of ancient language sheds light on Second Amendment
The amendment’s first 13 words include a Latin rhetorical device that points to the need for a militia as the reason for the right to bear arms.
Maine Voices: For quality health care, seek out hospitals with a health science librarian
Though they face job cuts, the researchers know how to find information that is critical to your well-being.
Maine Voices: Casco Bay High shines as joyful example of learning’s expedition
Our proficiency-based education lets students develop their passion and skills at the same time.
Maine Voices: Elie Wiesel’s lesson: Ask the right question
The Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate watched and remembered so none of us would forget.
Maine Voices: For supporters of Bernie Sanders, Trump may be the lesser of two evils
Clinton is a tragically wrong leader for the time, while for all his bluster, the Republican candidate has no record of mass murder.