The question before residents represents a fair balance between needs and ability to pay.
Editorials
Opinions from the Portland Press Herald editorial board.
Our View: Joining forces, charitable groups extend their reach
Environmental Funders Network members found they could do more by working together.
Our View: Legislators have to build budget around governor
Calling the spending plan ‘an $850 million hole,’ Gov. LePage has no viable plan to fill it.
Another View: Telegram commentators need a dose of perspective
Wailing about a variety of different issues is out of proportion to their real impact.
Another View: Labeling GMO products helps shoppers, won’t hurt farmers
A spokesman for the biotechnology industry is exaggerating the costs of a pro-consumer law.
Our View: Armed 4-year-old shows guns are too easy to get
Suicides and accidental deaths are the less-discussed risks of ubiquitous firearms.
Our View: State proposal no help to struggling schools
Maine’s education commissioner announces an underfunded and poorly thought-out plan.
Another View: Column on income gap shows how government is too strong
The people of this nation should not stand for a system in which they have no power.
Another View: To ease debt problem, target federal tax code
Ending ineffective breaks could result in a rate cut without shifting the burden to the little guy.
Another View: Anti-labor bills would have made Maine workers’ situation worse
‘Right-to-work’ laws wouldn’t have protected wages or improved working conditions.