The View From Here: Hotel rooms no substitute for permanent housing

What Portland is forced to spend for emergency shelter would be enough to develop hundreds of affordable apartments.

Maine Voices: My grandmother’s gift of resilience

Gram’s memoir of her less-than-easy life gives me perspective and reminds me that I am capable of more than I think.

Ramesh Ponnuru: Every Supreme Court nominee deserves firm opposition

Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)

Maine Voices: Why not a sales-tax holiday for Maine?

The projected $800 million budget surplus has positioned Maine well to provide some relief to our more cash-strapped friends and neighbors.

Maine Voices: Pandemic calls for us to rethink impossible expectations of teachers

Can we continue to ask them to wear so many hats, for pay that will not allow them to pursue education as a long-term career, with minimal support?

Commentary: Whoopi Goldberg got it all wrong on the Holocaust. But if she can learn, we all can

Suspended for her misinformed comments, ‘The View’ co-host gives us all one model for how to go about changing our perceptions.

Another View: There’s a lot to love about Maine winters

Maine Compass: Republicans are trying to strike down democracy

President Biden should use his State of the Union address to speak directly to Americans about the dangerous GOP effort to take power.

Commentary: Put an end to wrongful evictions of older Americans

My mom’s experience shows that state and federal laws requiring 30 days’ notice of nursing home discharges have been allowed to atrophy into irrelevance.

Maine Voices: Legislature should ban solitary confinement in Maine’s jails, prisons

L.D. 696 will put an end to a practice that has no rehabilitative purpose and that harms people who are incarcerated.