America, hope you enjoyed the political theater. Because that’s what all the anguish over the debt ceiling amounted to. In the real world, relatively little has happened. Congress had voted for public spending, but the outlays could only be covered by new borrowing, because tax revenues wouldn’t be sufficient. That would boost the national debt. […]
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Joe Guzzardi: Pregnant moms at the border, thanks to immigration policy
President Biden’s welcome-the-world border policy presents graver challenges than just admitting an estimated 10 million worldwide migrants by the time the Biden term ends in January 2025. Among the migrants are convicted criminals and terrorists on the FBI’s watch list. And needing specialized attention are pregnant women. A Time story, “Pregnant Asylum-Seekers Needed Help at […]
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Carl Golden: Biden campaign to take a ‘Where’s Waldo’ approach
While the contours of President Biden’s re-election campaign have yet to come into focus, early signs imply leaning greatly on surrogates to shoulder the heavy burden of promoting the president’s record and engaging in aggressive negativity against his opponent. The strategy suggests shielding the president from the media and maintaining tight control over his public […]
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Maine Voices: Concerned about the essence of urban life in Portland’s Bayside
Urbanist and activist Jane Jacobs’ concept of ‘the sidewalk ballet’ risks being steamrollered by a new apartment block on Hanover Street.
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Commentary: Background checks are the backbone of gun violence prevention
Nothing will bring back our spirited, loving daughter Darien Richardson, but we know we can prevent more tragedies.
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Commentary: Work requirements won’t solve labor shortages
And they do more harm than good, especially among the people they’re supposed to help.
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Giving Voice: Pulling together to weather the housing crisis
Last Friday at Tedford Housing, for the first time in memory, five men who spoke little English knocked on our door asking for a bed for the night. It was a bit chaotic as they patiently strained to control their desperation — strained be heard. Everyone is worried about housing right now, with good reason. […]
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The Maine Idea: Ukraine a defining issue for 2024
Was everybody as bored by the debt limit “crisis” as I was? This alleged drama, covered wall-to-wall by every major news outlet incessantly for days on end, was always headed for a predictable and undramatic ending. President Biden made some minor and fleeting concessions to the fact of a (tiny) Republican majority in the House, […]
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Tom Purcell: Americans rediscover the summer picnic
It’s a positive trend that I hope continues: the resurgence of summer picnics. According to Mental Floss, the COVID pandemic caused a picnic boom beginning in 2020 that is showing no signs of letting up. In 2020, with restaurants shuttered and experts telling us the bug didn’t spread so easily in outdoor air, many people, […]
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Maine Voices: The magic of a second spring on Great Cranberry Island
When I make it up to Maine in May, I am thrilled to find nature’s calendar on an earlier page.
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