L.D. 181 would require DHHS to eliminate the barriers to providing residential care for Maine young people closer to home.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Give young psychiatric patients somewhere to go
Legislating for new mental health facilities may not sit well with everyone. We should be far more uncomfortable with the alternative: leaving vulnerable young Mainers hanging in the balance.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Book review: A boy goes on a quest through mysterious realms to atone for his mother’s fatal mistake
In ‘Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods,’ writer Catherynne M. Valente’s sense of place is imaginative and gripping.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Keeping kids in poverty is our choice. What’s it going to be?
The expanded child tax credit pulled millions of kids out of poverty before expiring. It can do so again.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Shooting for a better moon
A society with fewer hungry people could accomplish great things, including conquering cancer.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A boy dealing with a shattering loss finds a group of friends facing troubles of their own
Sasha Kaufman’s “Sardines” doesn’t settle for easy answers.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Efforts to protect Maine children from lead poisoning are working
The work of a host of individuals and groups has succeeded in cutting rates of lead poisoning by half in a 10-year period. Let’s move the needle further.
Posted inLife & Culture
Society Notebook: Center for Grieving Children celebrates 35 years of the healing power of love
The annual Love Gala returned for the first time since the pandemic began.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Paid leave would strengthen Maine’s families and workforce
There’s nothing more important than giving people the opportunity to care for their loved ones.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, News, Schools and Education
In gender clash, Maine schools caught between parents, kids
The handling of gender identity at public schools has emerged as a new front in the culture war, pitting children’s privacy against some parents who fear educators are cutting them out of key conversations.