Our View: Coy on legacy admissions, Maine’s top colleges contradict themselves

Reluctant to provide information about favorable treatment for children of alumni, Bates, Bowdoin and Colby show there are limits to their commitment to fairness and transparency.

Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows

State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can't allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.

Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows

State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can't allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.

Our View: Justices put integrity of Supreme Court at risk

If the Court won't police itself, Congress must do it for them.

Our View: Major federal connectivity grant has to go a long way

Reaching 94,000 Maine homes and businesses that currently have unreliable internet or none at all is but one piece of a tricky puzzle.

Our View: We can’t afford to get used to climate change

A series of wet, dreary weeks culminated in natural disaster in parts of the Northeast. The writing is, once again, on the wall.

View from Away: US surgeon general takes aim at the toll inflicted by loneliness and isolation

Our View: Gov. Mills’ argument on tribes must now to be put to the test

Mills maintains that the best outcome for both the Wabanaki and the state can be obtained at the negotiating table. It shouldn’t be said another time; it should happen now.

Our View: Maine colleges strike the right note on affirmative action

Strong responses to last week’s Supreme Court ruling indicate that institutional leadership is thinking about diversity in the right way.

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’