Our View: Rail company responsible for Maine derailment should face consequences

CPKC should be held accountable for its mismanaged effort since the incident.

Our View: Maine’s school funding formula needs an update

State money is allocated unfairly in many cases, leading to inequities between wealthy districts and those that are less affluent.

Our View: A school with guns in it is not a safe school

Is this what a legislative response to gun violence looks like?

Commentary: Maine is not meeting its obligation to children like my son

Without a critical change to the payment structure for special-purpose preschools, these schools cannot survive.

Tom Waddell: Teach the real history of race in America

Douglas Rooks: Bridges can unite communities, if we let them

The dispute over the Frank J. Wood Bridge between Topsham and Brunswick didn't have to go this far.

Our View: As long as it’s easy to get a firearm, nowhere is safe

A majority of legislators seem to believe Maine is not at risk of gun violence, despite disturbing proof that it is.

Our View: Lisbon case lays bare exploitation of undocumented workers

More often than not, migrant workers are treated like criminals, while the real offenders avoid responsibility.

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.

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.