Opinion
Our View: Liz Cheney’s undetermined task ahead
The ousted Wyoming Republican says her work is only beginning. It’s not clear what, or how effective, that work will be.
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Commentary: Black teens are oversurveilled, overpoliced and overincarcerated
A new book confirms my own experience: When I made mistakes as a white teen, I was given second chances that my Black students today don’t get.
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Commentary: The U.S. needs a robust national plan for racial justice
Our failure to establish a U.N.-accredited national human rights institution leaves us in the minority.
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Our View: Heat wave shows inequitable effects of climate change
In Maine as around the world, this summer’s unbearable heat has hit low-income people far harder than everyone else.
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Letters
Ticket elicits memories of a more welcoming Portland
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Activist judges act in Republican Party’s interest
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Coverage of brain-dead patients misleads readers
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Letters
Collins’ words, vote on insulin cap contradict one another
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Portland parking enforcement is a public service
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Solar development will benefit ratepayers
Maine Voices: USM trip to Greenland sheds light on coastal communities’ challenges
Listening to Greenlanders tell stories about the dramatic effects of climate change is an illuminating experience.
Commentary: Maine’s elections should not be decided by dark money, foreign governments
Over the next few months, Maine voters will be subjected to a barrage of ads, many of which will be attacks by out-of-state special interest groups. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Thank you, Maine. I think I'll go home now.
Signing off – with a smile on my face and a lump in my throat – after 45 years in Maine journalism.
The View From Here: Living on a two-way street
Thank you and farewell to the readers with opinions about our opinions, who always let us know what they think.
The Maine Millennial: Pine Tree Power to the people
A 2023 ballot question is likely to ask us what we think about "government-controlled power." I think I'm for it.
Jim Fossel: The problem with the new spending bill
The Democrats' big win is backroom deal that will ultimately do more harm than good.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bill Russell was ‘an arrogant Negro’ to the end
To speak up in the 1960s was dangerous – to livelihood and, conceivably, to life. Russell did it anyway. And kept doing it.
The humble Farmer: A Maine farm seethes and roils with adventure
On cataract surgery, cows, genetic fortitude and the meaning of ‘small change.’