If this unbecoming fracas was about the law to begin with, it’s still about the law. No amount of duress changes that.
Editorials
Our View: Local protest of White House actions can unite and clarify
Public demonstration offers us an ever more valuable opportunity to connect with others — and to get specific as possible.
Our View: ‘Whiplash and worry’ continues to plague Maine
It’s challenging to respond to the Trump administration’s destabilizing decisions and caprice. But we have to keep responding.
Our View: Did Maine Republicans misunderstand budget stakes?
How else do you make sense of such a stubborn refusal to reach a compromise?
Our View: It’s back to basics, back to Maine
Wherever you find yourself this election season, try to focus on common local goals.
Our View: Hey, Legislature, leave those cats alone
A proposal to include domestic felines in Maine’s animal trespass law is ruffling feathers – and rightly so.
Firefighters work at risk — for us. Every single day
Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell Deputy Chief S. Clyde Ross Capt. Scott Baxter Capt. TD Hardy Firefighter Ted Baxter Firefighter Joe Hastings LEAP maintenance supervisor Larry Lord And, of course, Capt. Mike Bell. On Monday, each of these men went to work doing what they love, in a community they dearly love. Each of them […]
Our View: A city’s plan to turnaround a neighborhood
Lewiston is taking on crushing poverty, and other Maine communities should take notice.
Watchdog press bites back to protect access
Maine’s State House Facilities Committee, which oversees operation of the State House complex, voted Wednesday to recommend that the doors to the State House be locked and inaccessible to the press after hours, unless a scheduled meeting is underway or unless a reporter phones to request special permission to enter. The explanation was that public […]
Destroying ourselves
This has to stop. Hate speech, cloaking itself in Free Speech. Calls to “arms” against each other. And then the “arms” become real. Pipe bombs. Shootings. Are we a perfect society? Of course not. Are we populated with negative thoughts against others? Yes. It is part of the human condition when a lack of knowledge […]