Commentary: Expand Mainers’ eligibility for the Medicare Savings Program

There couldn’t be a better time to provide justice to the thousands of older Mainers now struggling to make ends meet.

Our View: Lawmakers should use child tax credit to boost next generation of Mainers

Reporting Aside: Volunteers who give aid to others hope one day they’ll be ‘completely unnecessary’

A small group of people with the Greater Waterville Area Poverty Action Coalition/Poor People's Campaign staff a table each Friday in Waterville to provide basic necessities to those in need, Amy Calder writes.

Our View: Keeping kids in poverty is our choice. What’s it going to be?

The expanded child tax credit pulled millions of kids out of poverty before expiring. It can do so again.

Maine Voices: Climate change is a complex issue. It requires a complex solution.

Saying that it’s all about reining in population significantly misses the mark – we also have to focus on affluence and consumption.

Commentary: Ohio’s train derailment – not spy balloons – is the real national security threat

The railroad accident and chemical spill underscore the slow degradation of U.S. infrastructure and disaster response.

Commentary: What Haiti needs is respect and democracy

A Nov. 15 Bloomberg editorial called only for police order, with nary a word about free elections or respect for Haitian independence.

Reporting Aside: With housing out of reach, woman asks, ‘Just let me prove myself’

The rental assistance Beth Gordon was receiving was pulled a few weeks ago and she now lives in a pop-up camper in Fairfield with her two children, but she remains determined to find the opportunity that will bring a better path.

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.

Reporting Aside: She found a home for her children in Etna, but struggles remain and winter awaits

Single working parent Kathy Cooper found a house to rent in the Penobscot County town of Etna for her and her four children after she received an eviction notice from her landlord in St. Albans, but the rental price is nearly twice what she paid before and the house needs a lot of attention, Amy Calder writes.