Siobhan Brett

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Published
April 12, 2023

Speaker Talbot Ross: ‘Health care for all’ must not rule out immigrants

It’s time to close a small but unjust gap in MaineCare and return our state to its longstanding practice of greater inclusion.
Published
April 12, 2023

Maine Voices: Efforts to stamp out medication abortion threaten all women

If anti-abortion zealots succeed in banning misoprostol, it will be denied to patients who need it for many more reasons than to terminate a pregnancy.
Published
April 12, 2023

Commentary: It’s time to talk about fentanyl ingestion in children

The first problem is failure to test for fentanyl when a drug test is ordered. The second problem is timely recognition and treatment of opioid ingestion in children, which is nowhere near as rare as we like to think.
Published
April 11, 2023

Maine Voices: Emphasis on revenue sabotages medical practices and hospitals

At some point, most of us who entered medicine for altruistic reasons find ourselves providing a declining quality of care.
Published
April 11, 2023

Maine Voices: Anti-trans obsessions have zero connection to reality

The term ‘transgenderism’ frames it as a choice. (Remember the gay ‘lifestyle’?) It’s not a choice, nor a modern invention.
Published
April 10, 2023

Maine Voices: Stigma surrounding community college sets everybody back

Kids enrolling in two-year institutions allow themselves the time and space to figure things out. Way more of them should be doing it.
Published
April 9, 2023

The Maine Millennial: No public mission, no public money

It’s the Bangor Christian School’s style of faith that has turned my generation away from organized religion.
Published
April 9, 2023

Jim Fossel: These days, why compromise at all?

America seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term. What we have instead freezes discussion and fosters discord.
Published
April 9, 2023

Maine Voices: Consider Jesus’s preferred pronouns

In Maine and elsewhere, transphobic legislation seeks to enshrine a dangerous and unorthodox notion of religious freedom.
Published
April 9, 2023

Our View: Showtime for ‘housing first’ model across Maine

A tried and tested solution to chronic homelessness can transform the lives of otherwise vulnerable Mainers. It’s up to us to believe in it and advocate for it in full.