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PublishedDecember 15, 2016
Commentary: In Maine and across the country, two-generation approach is critical to reducing child poverty
A combination of parent- and child-focused services can greatly boost a whole family's chance of success, say Sen. Susan Collins and the Gorman Foundation.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2016
Leonard Pitts: The news might be bad, but here’s to those brave enough to gather it
The many who die in the pursuit provide a chilling contrast for Donald Trump's anti-media frenzy.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2016
Maine Voices: Leave your upper-class bubble and connect with working-class struggles
The book 'Hillbilly Elegy' sheds light on a broad world that the 'leadership class' tends to discount.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2016
Commentary: Despite assurance to the contrary, services to disabled worsening
Maine's cost-cutting can only be accomplished at a huge cost to the intellectually challenged.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2016
Charles Lawton: Take comparison of parent and child incomes with a grain of doubt
Despite the harmful effects of income inequality found in the study, the American Dream is not fading away.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2016
Kathleen Parker: At trial for 9 murders inside church, the ‘why’ is not fully answered
A court in South Carolina is awash in the scenes of a killer's brutality and the pain of victims' families.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2016
Commentary: The voices of addiction
For Mainers dependent on opioids, access to medication is the key to treatment. For those without it: 'It feels like being dead.'
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PublishedDecember 10, 2016
To pass maturity test, pay attention to consequences and lack of them
Wanting to escape the effects of your actions is a sure sign that some growing up is needed.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2016
The humble Farmer: Grown-ups hard pressed to tap the baby within
During Thanksgiving dinner in a young family's home, a low-wattage light bulb goes on.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2016
M.D. Harmon: Hasn’t Santa lost all traces of being a religious figure? Maybe not
It was a surprise when an Oregon district lumped Mr. Claus into efforts to keep God out of the classroom.
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