Families should not be forced to make difficult — even impossible — decisions about whether to buy food and fuel or health insurance.
Op-eds
Maine’s young people are ready to talk politics. Are you? | Opinion
Please trust us to be the capable, critical and motivated citizens we are.
Portland restaurants, cool it on the ‘concepts’ | Opinion
Won’t somebody think of the locals?
Troy Jackson is committed to rejecting dark money | Opinion
We must elect those candidates who show by their actions that they will only be anointed by and beholden to the people.
From Maine to El Paso: The harrowing pipeline of those detained by ICE | Opinion
Although we live more than 2,000 miles away from each other, both of our communities have been resisting the Trump administration’s enforcement regime.
Bottle bill proposal will devastate Maine’s beverage businesses | Opinion
While we support the program, it must be financially sustainable. Shifting costs onto local businesses already dealing with thin margins and rising costs in an unsettled economic environment is not the answer.
Let’s restore a necessary balance to campaign contributions | Opinion
Maine has a complicated but usable option for reining in the influence of big-money donors.
Maine has an opportunity to do more for its veterans | Opinion
A bill that would allow electronic pull-tab gaming could make a meaningful difference to organization’s fundraising.
How to cut electric rates in Maine — without public power | Opinion
While investor-owned utilities have the spending power to defeat the idea at the ballot box, there are alternatives worth exploring to lower bills.
Frightened Lewiston Somalis feel besieged by The Maine Wire | Steve Collins
A Somali family found itself in the national limelight after a right-wing nonprofit turned a teenage boy into a symbol of health care fraud.