Columns

Published
February 16, 2016

Maine Voices: Aroostook County energy projects would power more than electrical grid

Our vast landscape can provide renewable energy – creating badly needed jobs and revenue in northern Maine.
Published
February 15, 2016

Maine Voices: Maine lawmakers need to implement new Clean Election law

This means that all of the statute's provisions, including the funding it provides, must be put in place.
Published
February 14, 2016

Maine Observer: Stories salvaged from daughter’s detritus

An author is grateful for discarded notebooks and, in other ways, for the child who pitched them.
Published
February 14, 2016

Maine Voices: Building new prison solves nothing

A proposal for a new correctional facility ignores creative ways to reduce the number of inmates the state has to house.
Published
February 14, 2016

Cynthia Dill: Beyoncé becomes an election issue

The flap over her Super Bowl halftime performance is rooted in fear of change and of the generations coming after us.

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Published
February 14, 2016

Alan Caron: Facts about illegal aliens might change ideas about where to put that wall

It turns out that Mexico is not our biggest contributor.
Published
February 14, 2016

Commentary: Why people confess to crimes  they didn’t commit

If the goal of interrogations is to elicit truth, the techniques used by police are badly suited to the task.
Published
February 13, 2016

Port City Post: My parents show the right way to fight your age

Reaching their early 80s hasn't stopped my mother and father from acting like young sweethearts.
Published
February 13, 2016

The humble Farmer: A trip down memory lane in search of childhood friends

I looked on the Internet to find out what became of two princesses who summered in Camden.
Published
February 13, 2016

Maine Voices: A special patient delivers a special message about love – and the body

When an elderly man presents with symptoms of a heart attack, his doctors learn about a deep love story.