Recent ‘polar vortex disruption’ should prompt a cold, hard assessment of what’s on offer.
Editorials
Check in on your local school board | Editorial
A Kennebec Journal investigation reveals the local school board’s rising importance in the gaudy national battle sometimes called ‘the culture war.’
Did we want the shutdown to end or didn’t we? | Editorial
Outrage over Sen. Angus King’s shutdown vote reveals a public more concerned with politics than with people. Better to save the scorn for where it’s really deserved.
Maine voted to keep on voting. Good. | Editorial
Goodbye, Question 1, and good riddance.
Rep. Jared Golden steps up to step back | Editorial
It takes especially punishing circumstances to make a very dedicated and capable congressman dread reelection — and to act on that feeling.
A lot done to ease SNAP fear in Maine. A lot more to do. | Editorial
Something’s got to give — and it’s not the local markets, restaurants, food banks and pantries already giving their all.
Vote ‘Yes’ on Maine’s Question 2 | Editorial
Our existing ‘yellow flag’ law is fit for some purposes and less fit for others. The public would benefit from another option alongside it.
Vote ‘No’ on Maine’s Question 1 | Editorial
To require photo identification at the polls would be one thing. The ballot measure we’re invited to support goes much, much further — with insufficient concern for who or what it would impede.
Brace for federal shutdown’s local shockwaves | Editorial
The distance between Maine and D.C. has rarely felt so small.
Maine’s system of funding school construction has failed | Editorial
Efforts to remake this very broken arrangement must be expedited now.