Thinking how to bridge some of the fractures that have riven our public lives, and increasingly our private lives, too, it’s easy to despair. How can we ever get beyond blame and vilification, where one side responds to all challenges by talking louder, and seeming to benefit? The impulse of most Americans, and Mainers, who […]
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Letter: Vote Sahrbeck for Cumberland County DA
I wholeheartedly believe we should re-elect Jonathan Sahrbeck as the Cumberland County District Attorney. He has worked tirelessly to reform our criminal justice system, leading with compassion and resolve. He strives to understand how traumatic childhood experiences negatively affect those often caught in a cycle of poverty, addiction, and incarceration. Jonathan prioritizes treatment over incarceration […]
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What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains
Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening amounts of fentanyl. Physicians like me have seen a rise in unintentional fentanyl use from people buying prescription opioids and other drugs laced, or adulterated, with fentanyl. Heroin users […]
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Guest column: The ethics of spring cleaning
You know what season it is when you walk outside and can smell the budding of flowers or the chirps of birds in the morning. That’s right, it’s spring cleaning season. ‘Tis the season where hoards of trash bags leave home, including but not limited to old, gross clothes that don’t fit anymore, the furniture […]
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Letters: Collins can portray self as victim while doing GOP’s bidding; Bill would end denial of federal benefits to Wabanaki people
Collins can portray self as victim while doing GOP’s bidding In the process of confirming Trump’s recent Supreme Court nominees, Susan Collins had to will herself naive in order to further the Republicans’ Court-packing strategy. That she was able to do so speaks to her political savvy. Using her trusting nature as political cover, she […]
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Commentary: New Englanders support more offshore wind power – just don’t send it to New York
In Rhode Island, home to the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., most people support expanding offshore wind power – with one important caveat. Our research shows they’re less likely to support a wind power project if its energy flows to another state, and especially if it goes to a rival state. We found […]
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Commentary: Ukraine receives weapons support from around the world
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, many of the world’s nations have sought to support Ukrainians by sending weapons. Even before that, though, many countries were offering limited help as a result of the Russian takeover of Crimea, in southern Ukraine, in 2014. The United States has given more than $3 billion in military aid […]
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Letters: Vote Ankeles for House District 100; Vote Sartoris for Cumberland County DA
Vote Ankeles for House District 100 House District 100 voters have a clear choice in the June 14 Democratic Primary election. Dan Ankeles has my full support because he is the best qualified and most experienced candidate. In reviewing his solid performance as a very active member of the Brunswick Town Council over the last […]
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Michael Reagan: Thank God I was adopted, not aborted
Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market. Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion is dominating the front pages of our media again. The leak of the first draft of a majority decision by the Supremes to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that […]
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Dick Polman: Lazy Democrats deserve prime blame for the ruination of Roe v. Wade
It’s shocking that someone within the Supreme Court enclave would take the extraordinary step to leak the draft opinion that kills Roe v. Wade and propels women back to the coat-hanger era. But what’s not shocking in the slightest is the draft opinion itself. Did we really expect anything else? It’s not as if the […]