Encouraging physical therapists to practice in underserved areas by offering them student loan relief would give more Mainers a healthier option to painkilling drugs.
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Maine Voices: Support for open borders will be Democrats’ undoing in 2020
Voters (and opinion writers for liberal newspapers) oppose free care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing illegal crossings and other conspicuously bad ideas.
Commentary: Usual responses to drug epidemics won’t reverse fentanyl fatalities
Solutions should focus on creative supply disruption, supervised opioid use sites and new forms of treatment.
Another View: Imagine the terror in the Bahamas, then help
It is right for us – as individuals, as a community and as a nation – to lend a helping hand to our island neighbors, who face a years-long road to recovery.
Commentary: We can’t leave Afghanistan without protecting our closest allies first
What will happen to the local staffers who have risked their lives to support the U.S. mission?
Marc A. Thiessen: Senate Democrats make unprecedented threat against Supreme Court
They want to restructure the court if the justices do not rule as they see fit. Talk about ‘disdain for an independent judiciary.’
Maine Voices: Public Utilities Commission should look out for consumers’ interests, not CMP’s
It’s galling that the PUC has seconded the company’s specious rationale for wildly inflated bills.
Our View: Maine taking right route on early education
The next few years will be crucial in establishing high-quality pre-kindergarten programs throughout the state.
Our View: Deported man’s pardon a step toward justice
Lexius Saint Martin should now be reunited with his family.
Dana Milbank: Trump’s Dorian response is par for the course
The president prepares for the powerful storm by tweeting and hanging out on the fairways.