Access to birthing care is not a luxury. It’s a necessity.
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Graham Platner must withdraw now | Opinion
Prior ‘scandals’ unearthed against the Democratic Senate candidate seemed hyperbolic. This time it’s different.
Platner mess gives Maine a chance to reset | Opinion
Mainers don’t want a brawl, they want somebody to fix the furnace. Any campaign strategy has to start there.
For sale: One democracy, lightly used | Opinion
Money has always talked in politics. Before the Supreme Court’s elimination of campaign spending caps, at least it was more of a whisper.
Remember Maine’s ‘river patriots’ | Opinion
From Vietnam to Somalia and beyond, our veterans’ sacrifices must never be forgotten.
Juneteenth should serve as a call to action | Opinion
There are still many ways that we unfairly criminalize Black people and punish them more harshly.
Platner’s mob mentality is disastrous for Maine and for America | Opinion
When the mob is finished with one group, who determines the next?
Maine can’t afford Susan Collins’ earmarks | Opinion
The numbers and the reality on the ground don’t lie.
Proposed federal rule threatens far more than scientific research | Opinion
A troubling new framework for grant applications would put invaluable federal grants of all kinds at risk.
A 1774 meeting on Portland’s ‘Great Hill’ should inform America’s struggle today | Opinion
That July, future president John Adams and loyalist Jonathan Sewall, each other’s dearest friends, met on what is today the Eastern Prom. The lesson of their meeting on the hill is that democracy demands active vigilance, even when it forces us to face the ‘sharpest thorn’ in our own lives.