A lot has changed about how we think about football and brain damage since Justin Strzelczyk died bizarrely a few years after leaving the NFL.
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
View from Away: Facebook, Farrakhan and the fight against hate
Facebook’s terms of service are clear: “We do not allow hate speech on Facebook because it creates an environment of intimidation and exclusion, and in some cases may promote real-world violence.” The social network giant draws the line on hate organizations and their leaders who attack individuals based on race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, […]
Softball: Richmond cruises to win over Temple Academy
Bobcats take advantage of Bereans’ mistakes in victory.
Our View: Don’t give air to ever-burning fires of hate
The story of Michael Klahr, a Holocaust survivor who married a Mainer, shows that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate.
Our View: Don’t give air to ever-burning fires of hate
The story of Michael Klahr, a Holocaust survivor who married a Mainer, shows that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate.
View from Away: Hungry, homeless and in college
The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University found a staggering 45 percent of students in colleges and universities nationwide have been food insecure in the past 30 days. And more than half have experienced housing insecurity. The report surveyed 86,000 students at 123 colleges across the country, including two-year and four-year […]
View from Away: In defense of a booming economy. This is no ‘sugar high’
The U.S. economy is growing at such a fast clip and the unemployment rate is so low that … there must be something terribly wrong. Does that make sense? No, but the healthy state of the country seems to be too much for some economists, talking heads and others in the chattering class. They struggle […]
Commentary: Trump’s singularly remarkable achievement: Lying copiously
So who had April 26 in the office pool for when President Donald Trump would utter his 10,000th lie? (Checks files: Dang, I had April 15.) The Washington Post has been tracking all of Trump’s “false and misleading claims,” and by its tally, Trump hit the 10,000 mark on April 26, a simultaneously remarkable and […]
Our View: There’s no question – Maine college students are allowed to vote
College students who live here can vote here, regardless of where they bank or where they register their car.
View from Away: The Holocaust and ‘Why?’
In a new book about Holocaust scholar and survivor Elie Wiesel, the author, Howard Reich asks Wiesel the inevitable suite of questions: Why? Why is human history in part a story of anti-Semitism? Why did the Holocaust happen? Why are Jewish houses of worship targeted for violence today? “Why do they hate us? Why?” Wiesel […]