A probation office in Portland does not pose a special risk to children, and it does perform a vital civil function.
Greg Kesich
Our View: Children bear brunt of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
Cruelty toward immigrant children is baked into the president’s policies and rhetoric.
Maine Voices: Bearing witness to a child detention facility
Standing on ladders in a hot Florida swamp, activists deliver a message of love to detained minors.
Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote
Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.
Jim Fossel: Bipartisan foreign policy is not weakness
The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are driving a political wedge between Americans and Israelis.
The Maine Millennial: Accounting for pain got lost amid addiction to profit
Drug companies and liquor bottlers can’t be expected to regulate themselves.
Our View: Maine presidential primary should use ranked-choice voting
The most confusing aspect of the system is the on-again-off-again way that it’s used in some races but not others.
Our View: New forest products put Maine on right track
Wood fiber insulation and bridge supports are restoring jobs that were lost to declines in the paper industry.
Our View: Virtual charter schools didn’t live up to the hype
What was supposed to be a transformative education model is struggling to meet minimum standards.
Maine Voices: Citizens United still casts a shadow
We need to amend the Constitution to limit corporate money in politics.