Siobhan Brett

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Published
October 28, 2022

Maine Voices: How to vote ‘correctly’ (as in, not regretting your choice later)

Ideally, your vote reflects your beliefs, and your candidate will do what you hope and expect. It’s regrettable, then, that we often don’t know what we’re getting.
Published
October 27, 2022

Commentary: Criticism of Maine State Chamber of Commerce on PFAS undeserved

An extension of the PFAS reporting deadline will have no impact on the original intent of the legislation.
Published
October 26, 2022

Maine Voices: Where is the serious discussion and reasonable compromise?

We are increasingly incapable of respecting the right to disagree. That has grave consequences for democracy.
Published
October 25, 2022

Commentary: A little help on parsing inflation from New Hampshire’s Sununu

What we’re confronting today is primarily global; not just fueled but also fired up by the supply chain shutdown during the worst of the pandemic.
Published
October 24, 2022

Maine Voices: Why don’t we try listening to our anxiety?

Mental health experts often tell us to “breathe through” things. Faced with the terror and grief of today, that encouragement is misguided.
Published
October 23, 2022

Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale

Let’s pull together for an endangered species that, as you may have noticed in recent weeks, has no constituency.
Published
October 23, 2022

The Maine Millennial: Don’t blame people for trying to take housing into their own hands

Portland’s ballot questions on short-term rentals and tenant protections didn’t fall from the sky.
Published
October 23, 2022

Commentary: Opioid epidemic’s undue burden on rural Maine requires our full attention

Investment in evidence-based approaches can help guide our rural communities out of crisis.
Published
October 23, 2022

Jim Fossel: So you can’t fight inflation. How about not adding to it?

When it comes to tempering the cost of living, President Biden could have done a whole lot more by doing a whole lot less.
Published
October 22, 2022

Commentary: If we’re serious about moving to clean energy, Maine needs Pine Tree Power

Thanks to our natural resources and our tradition of self-reliance, Maine could become a regional clean energy powerhouse. The transition must work for everyone.