Siobhan Brett

Editorial Page Editor

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Published
March 22, 2023

Commentary: Maine’s girls and nonbinary youth deserve to be listened to

Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.
Published
March 21, 2023

Maine Voices: Maine made me the scientist I am today

An opportunity to learn and work alongside professional ocean researchers as a high school junior, without any cost to my family, changed my life for the better.
Published
March 21, 2023

Maine Voices: ‘Obscene’ content bill does not have child protection at its heart

This bill would criminalize librarianship and subject our communities to costly lawsuits over … well, you name it.
Published
March 20, 2023

Commentary: The Willow Project is a carbon bomb. Biden just lit the match

The Willow Project may seem far-removed from our two Portlands. The reality is it has grave consequences for the ocean, which many Mainers and Oregonians rely on.
Published
March 20, 2023

Another View: Don’t let incompetent bank executives derail the Fed’s inflation battle

The blame ought to be placed where it belongs: The bank’s leaders blew it.
Published
March 20, 2023

Commentary: Fearmongering diverts attention from real threats of gender oppression

Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said gender equality worldwide is now 300 years away and “vanishing before our eyes.”
Published
March 19, 2023

Jim Fossel: Biden budget beggars belief

If a spoiled child concocted a federal budget proposal, it’d look a lot like the one Biden just unveiled.
Published
March 19, 2023

Commentary: Who lived here until Europe showed up on the shore?

I walk the land in Westbrook and think about all that colonizers attempted to eliminate – and how little evidence of that is on display.
Published
March 19, 2023

The Maine Millennial: Hello Tinder, my old friend

Men of Maine: I mustache you some questions.
Published
March 19, 2023

Commentary: An immigration parable in Portland’s West End

How deeply strange to celebrate the years-old arrival and assimilation of people while struggling with the arrival and assimilation of people today.