Eric Samson: Invest in quality preschooling

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May 17, 2019

Eric Samson: Invest in quality preschooling

A recent article about statewide pre-kindergarten expansion is great news for parents who want to ensure their kids develop the social-emotional, pre-literacy and pre-math skills they will need for long-term academic success. It is also great news to see so many law enforcement leaders who have been strong advocates for increasing investments in early childhood […]
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May 17, 2019

Leonard Pitts: Nation in need of people of conscience

Mike Pence was right. At least, inadvertently, he was. In a commencement address Saturday at Liberty University, the Christian evangelical college in Virginia, the vice president warned graduates that they should expect to be “shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible.” “As you go about your daily life,” he said, “just be […]
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May 17, 2019

Audrey Murphy: Vote ‘no’ on LD 816

Passage of LD 816 would make Maine a popular vote state. It is a horrible idea. I am a non-preference voter or, as some say, an independent. I am not beholden to any party. I vote the person, not the party. I strongly believe every vote counts and have voted in every election for more […]
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May 17, 2019

Austin Bay: Congo’s global epidemic war

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s daily hell of poverty, assorted wars, ethnic antagonism, frail government institutions, porous borders, cultural superstitions, meddling neighbors and corrupt elites provide a one-stop-shop example of the wicked conditions afflicting the globe’s less-developed regions, sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Unfortunately for all homo sapiens living within 200 kilometers or so of a […]
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May 17, 2019

George Mathews: Thoughts about school systems

The basic model for teaching school-age children hasn’t changed in the past 150 years. There is still a classroom with a teacher and a room full of students. Why? We now have the internet, Skype and free computers for the kids, yet we still use the old classroom model, while many colleges and schools offer […]
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May 16, 2019

Jan Collins: Immigrants are our neighbors in need

I have lived in Maine all my life. As a Mainer, I have been both a recipient and a provider of the generosity of Maine people. When my mother, a single parent, was temporarily disabled from a workplace injury, the neighbors lined up to ensure that we had casseroles to eat. In Maine, we help our […]
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May 16, 2019

Edward Walworth: Support the Scientific Integrity Act

While the news from Washington these days consists largely of confrontations between the White House and Congress, other serious concerns are being overlooked. The current administration is doing its best to ignore and suppress science. To that end, I hope that Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Rep. Jared Golden will support the Scientific […]
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May 16, 2019

Froma Harrop: Put an end to political family privilege

The Trump camp is making a very big deal out of Hunter Biden’s 2014 gig with a Ukrainian oligarch. This was a time when his father, Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president, was pressing Ukraine’s leaders to rein in its oligarchs. As it happened, Hunter’s membership on the oligarch’s board in no way weakened Joe […]
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May 16, 2019

Cal Thomas: Back to the past with Joe Biden

Joe Biden, the leading Democrat in the overcrowded presidential sweepstakes (there are more of them running than horses in the recent Kentucky Derby), appears to want to take America back to the days of the Obama administration, which he was a part of for eight years. What would that look like? In a 2010 interview […]
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May 16, 2019

Chip Morrison: Support for open enrollment

Maine needs to change its voting system for political primaries. More than 400,000 registered Maine voters can’t vote in the primaries. Why? Because they are not registered in a political party. And many are not registered in a political party because the major parties are broken and are the cause for so much gridlock in […]

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