Restaurant work is hard enough without the risk of catching a serious disease on the job.
Editorials
Opinions from the Portland Press Herald editorial board.
Our View: Public deserves to know reason for low asylum approval rates
Rejections from the Boston regional immigration office far outpace the national average, and federal officials have been slow to explain why.
Our View: Bringing high tech to the Maine woods
Innovations by local entrepreneurs can improve safe access to the state’s mountains, lakes, streams and coast.
View from Away: Climate change is ravaging the planet. We have to act.
The U.S., as one of the nations responsible for the most emissions, bears a special responsibility to move quickly now to cut carbon.
Our View: Gratitude and grace needed during the holidays
The advice of the Maine CDC director strikes the right chord in a bewildering, frustrating time.
Another View: NECEC foes have allowed perfect to be the enemy of the good
Joel Clement and Pete Didisheim would rather imagine a regional climate change strategy than implement a substantive and permitted proposal.
Our View: Christmas a good time to remember that homelessness is solvable
We have the tools to give people safe, stable housing. We just have to use them.
Our View: Little holiday cheer in COVID news
Fully vaccinated Mainers can celebrate, as long as they don’t celebrate the end of the pandemic too soon.
Our View: Cutting tax credit will push millions of kids back into poverty
Sen. Joe Manchin reportedly says the checks were wasted; actually, they went toward food, housing and other essentials.
Our View: Congress can’t surrender in climate fight
One senator should not be able to stop legislation that’s so vital to our future.