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Vickie Lailer: The incredible power of reading to children at home: Join the February Read to ME Challenge
Reading at home does more than create lifelong memories. It sets our children up for success at school. It gives children background knowledge, fosters empathy, and increases their vocabulary.
Dale Crafts: It’s time for Maine’s Legislature to support small business
With the 2025 legislative session now underway, our elected officials must make supporting small businesses a top priority rather than wasting valuable floor time on unnecessary and overreaching tech regulations.
Rich Lowry: Trump’s Panama win
The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn’t been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump began banging the drum about Panama’s mismanagement of the canal. Then, in a truly extraordinary line in his inaugural address that didn’t get much attention given the rush of other events, he pledged to take it back.
Cal Thomas: The changing media landscape
It may be too late for legacy media to redeem itself, given the leftist bent of many within that cocoon. If they go the way of previous outmoded and irrelevant things, they will have only themselves to blame.
Froma Harrop: Egg prices are totally Donald Trump’s fault!
During the campaign, Donald Trump stood before a table of groceries, a box of eggs included, and promised: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.” It’s now past day 14, and eggs prices are hitting record highs.
Maine has made progress toward helping minors suffering from sexual assault
On Jan. 28, the Maine Law Court issued a highly consequential decision — one that could potentially bar civil suits by hundreds of litigants in this state claiming to have suffered sexual abuse as minors by members of the state’s Catholic clergy. The case, Robert E. Dupuis et al. v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, […]
Cal Thomas: Democrats do have a message
Democrats suffer from a cultural and economic addiction that is stronger than some of the drugs we have allowed to come over our borders.
Severin Beliveau: Keep the French doors closed to Charles Kushner
There is no reason to expect that he will nurture the relations between our country and our state or with the people of France or of Europe. Appointing Charles Kushner with a history of criminal behavior could be seen as disqualifying for a diplomatic position that requires a high level of trust and integrity.
Austin Bay: New Gaza as condos, not shell holes
Trump has real estate cred. Suddenly, devastated Gaza is a real estate development — it has a future no one else ever saw. Gaza beach and sea. Mild eastern Mediterranean climate. This piece of real estate has “possibilities.” Condos — not craters!