The organization’s clinics are the place to go for access to a wide range of reproductive health services.
Greg Kesich
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: D-Day shows how to fight climate change
If the world had responded to the Nazis the way we are responding to global warming, Hitler would have won.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: UMaine System picks a politician for top job
Making the case for higher education, both in Augusta and with the public, may be the biggest challenge before the system’s new chancellor.
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Candy Guerette, Topsham: A diploma for the happiest voice in the choir
The moment the band began playing “Pomp and Circumstance,” I reached into my purse for a tissue. Today closed a chapter in my daughter Aimee’s life, our life, as she marched into the auditorium for her high school graduation. She held her head high, trying to look serious. That wasn’t possible, it wasn’t her nature. […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Any gun bill compromise would be a bad deal
Republicans should stand their ground and fight any initiative that would enable the confiscation of firearms.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Opinion
The View From Here: Electoral College small part of a big problem
Our political systems are concentrating power in too few hands. That usually doesn’t end well.
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
John E. Lawrence, Winslow: Speech showed not all knowledge is power
In this season, graduations are happening all around. This topic got me to think of the four of which I was a participant – in particular, the one at Schenck School in 1960. For the “honor” of having the highest grades in our class of 16, I was told by our teaching principal, Kenneth Taylor, […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Cheryl Stringer, New Gloucester: Leaving it all behind and discovering what lies ahead
It was a June evening in 1982, at Gray-New Gloucester High School. I zipped the flimsy graduation robe over my white and navy dress. I remember it was sailor-style; in retrospect a bit juvenile, but I was still more child than woman. I draped the yellow stole and the double-tasseled cord around my shoulders, then […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Workers’ comp reform tests Maine legislators’ skill
Compromise is not a dirty word, and both parties should seize the opportunity to make a deal.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Crisis coming on elder care finance
The current generation of retirees can’t get by on their retirement benefits, and the generations behind them are in worse shape.