The federal government has continued to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border despite a court order that sought to severely curtail the practice. Over the course of a year, 911 more children were taken, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a court filing Tuesday. And where did the ACLU get […]
Megan Bachelder
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Noah Smith: Education is for everyone, but college isn’t
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she wants to turn K-12 schooling into K-16 — in other words, to move toward making public four-year colleges free and universal. But there are good reasons not to do this. Past a certain point, education probably works best as an eclectic mix of approaches rather than as a one-size-fits-all program. […]
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Maine Compass: Why I quit playing banjo
“Musician’s dystonia” forced the author to put down his instrument, at least professionally.
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Our View: Mainers could benefit from more telehealth
In an aging, rural state, telemedicine could fill in health care gaps.
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Tom Waddell: Mills makes up for lost years
Gov. Janet Mills is reversing a lot of harm done by Gov. Paul LePage.
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Another View: Freedom of speech is vital to a well-functioning democracy
I have a coffee cup on my desk that I bought some years ago at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. It illustrated one of the Four Freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted were essential to America’s democracy. They were freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom to worship God in your own […]
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Douglas Rooks: Costs are at the center of the health care crisis
We need effective hospital regulation to rein in how much we spend on health care.