When high-achieving students from rural areas go off to college and graduate, they often choose to live in suburban or urban areas instead rural communities like the ones where they grew up, decades of research have shown. Often they are following the advice of adults – or just deciding on their own – to search […]
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Commentary: Battles over book bans reflect conflicts from the 1980s
A conservative leader found fault with how “respect for our nation’s heritage” had been mostly stripped from the textbooks of public schools. “From kindergarten right through the total school system, it almost seems as if classroom textbooks are designed to negate what philosophies previously had been taught,” the conservative leader lamented. “[M]any textbooks are actually […]
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Dick Polman: Is America strong enough to endure domestic sacrifice?
During World War II, Americans put up with rationed gas and car tires, rationed coal and fuel oil, rationed silk and nylon, rationed meat and daily products, rationed jams and jellies, even rationed coffee. Would today’s Americans – some of whom freaked out, during the worst of the pandemic, when they couldn’t get their hair […]
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Peter Funt: We don’t want blood-stained oil
Dear President Biden: Many of us feel helpless — overwhelmed, actually — about the catastrophe in Ukraine, wishing we could do more to show support for that nation’s brave people. Moreover, we want to pitch in. We’re giving money to organizations providing aid to the more than one million refugees, most of them women and […]
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Letters: Investing in school sports, health education helps us all; Virginia student wants to know more about Maine
Investing in school sports, health education helps us all Congratulations to all the high school basketball players, parents and staff who made this such a spectacular tournament! Being a Nokomis alum it has been an exciting season for me, but more important than trophies is the way it has brought communities together, especially after the […]
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Letter: Housing crisis harms Mainers’ quality of life, Fecteau bill would help
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau’s bill LD 2003, an act to implement the Commission’s Recommendations to Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine, was created with bipartisan support. This bill will take significant steps towards fixing our housing shortage and create a needed path to address the critical issue of quality, affordable housing for all in Maine. I’m […]
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Commentary: Students with disabilities are not getting help to address lost opportunities
Even before the pandemic hit, 98% of U.S. school districts said they didn’t have enough special education teachers to serve all the students who needed their help. During the pandemic, short-handed school districts were even more stretched to provide learning support to students with disabilities. Now, those students are struggling to catch up with where […]
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Letter: Support carbon tax, dividend
On Dec. 30 of this past year, while I was home for winter break from Bowdoin College, the Marshall Fire tore through my hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Throughout the day, due to dry conditions and hurricane-force winds, the fire spread over 6,000 acres. The Marshall Fire would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, […]
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Commentary: ‘Freedom will triumph over tyranny’: Biden’s first State of the Union echoes themes from the Cold War
It was a familiar scene. The president of the United States strode down the aisle of the U.S. House of Representatives to deliver the State of the Union address, the only constitutionally mandated instance of presidential speech. Usually, it serves to lay out the White House’s policy agenda for the coming year, along with perceived […]
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Letters: Those with intellectual, developmental disabilities deserve Mills’ advocacy; Not trusting polls
Those with intellectual, developmental disabilities deserve Mills’ advocacy Thank you, Gov. Mills, for your letter to the Maine Veterans’ Homes Board of Trustees protesting the closure of two veterans’ homes in northern Maine. As the daughter of a veteran who spent his last days in the hospice unit at Togus, I can speak firsthand about […]