Editorials

Published
December 24, 2022

Our View: We must push back on the forces keeping us apart

It’s a good time to think about meeting with friends, nurturing relationships and building community.
Published
December 21, 2022

Our View: Fail to prepare, prepare for a tidal wave of Maine evictions

The end of ‘unprecedented’ support for American renters demanded equally unprecedented consideration and careful management at the federal and state levels. It received nothing of the sort.
Published
December 20, 2022

Our View: Let’s be there – again – for our besieged letter carriers

For successive years now, cries for help from the people who keep the United States Postal Service going have been ignored.
Published
December 18, 2022

Our View: Transmission lines are key to our clean-energy future

The transition to renewable power is no longer held back by technology but by supply chain problems, labor problems – and opposition to necessary projects.
Published
December 17, 2022

Our View: Greater Portland transit spending saga shows how far we have to go

Needless bureaucracy resulted in the effective veto of federal funding for public transit in southern Maine – which can’t get off the ground without it.
Published
December 11, 2022

Our View: Political maneuvers insult the Maine people waiting for help

Last week’s vote on heating assistance, and the blame game that ensued, took the focus away from the only place it should be.
Published
December 6, 2022

Our View: Why can’t we wrap our heads around public investment in child care?

Unless we can accept that access to child care is infrastructure, the nation’s child care crisis – and its attendant ills – will only worsen.
Published
December 4, 2022

Our View: Let’s not lose sight of why Respect for Marriage Act is needed

The threat posed to inherent and hard-won rights by the Republican-led Supreme Court makes this legislation necessary.
Published
December 3, 2022

Another View: Of course railroad workers should get paid sick leave. So should all workers

After more than two years of a pandemic, it should be clear that sick leave is not just a worker benefit – it’s a public health protection.
Published
December 2, 2022

Commentary: What Haiti needs is respect and democracy

A Nov. 15 Bloomberg editorial called only for police order, with nary a word about free elections or respect for Haitian independence.