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Dick Polman: ‘How is this still happening? How are our children still dying?’

by Dick Polman Guest column April 4, 2023April 3, 2023

Put your hands together for gun reform activist Ashbey Beasley, an anguished mom who showed up uninvited on Fox News the other day. She stormed within camera range and raged common sense to the viewers who’d probably tuned in for the usual brain-dead propaganda. She and her son had survived last summer’s massacre in Highland […]

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: Maine must stop trying to bypass Supreme Court decision on schools

by Courtney Jones Special to the Press Herald April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

The outcome in Carson v. Makin made clear that such religious discrimination in our education system must end. Why hasn’t it?

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: Republicans could regret attacking Trump’s indictment

by Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg Opinion April 4, 2023April 3, 2023

Suggesting the indictment never should have happened – without knowing the details – implies that the former president should be treated as being above the law.

Maine Voices, Opinion

Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true

by Irv Williams Special to the Press Herald April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.

Editorials, Opinion

Another View: Industry needs government to step up in battle against climate change

by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board April 3, 2023April 2, 2023

Unless U.S. policymakers step up their game, the future looks shaky for some basic building blocks of the economy.

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: Protect women athletes? Show me the money

by Sherry Boschert Special to the Press Herald April 3, 2023April 3, 2023

Laws requiring equal financing and equal pay for men’s and women’s teams would benefit dozens of women athletes at USM and Bowdoin – and thousands nationwide.

Times Record Opinion

The Conversation: Trump’s indictment stretches U.S. legal system in new ways — a former prosecutor explains 4 key points to understand

by Jeffrey Bellin, William & Mary Law School The Conversation April 2, 2023April 2, 2023

When former President Donald Trump turns himself over to authorities in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, and is arraigned, the charges on which a Manhattan grand jury indicted him will likely be made public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg obtained the indictment on March 30, 2023, following a grand jury vote, but the exact charges […]