The Biden administration owes us an explanation and a road map that shows how the nation will transition away from fossil fuels. Any new plans for fossil fuel extraction needs to be put in the context of achieving a 50% to 52% reduction by 2030.
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Sarah Bishop: Why social work loan forgiveness makes sense for Maine
Maine is largely rural and is in desperate need for social workers. LD 632 would incentivize new master of social work graduates to stay in Maine by assisting in loan repayment and help assure that underserved people in Maine are getting the care they need and deserve.
Laura Fralich: A response to the burning of a pride flag in New Gloucester
The statement from our town government condemning the recent hate crime was empty optics if it is not coupled with continued action and meaningful change.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Ethics in high places
Our public servants need to deserve our trust. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey do not. Both should resign.
Froma Harrop: Free speech needs muscle
When hecklers prevented an invited speaker from addressing an audience at Stanford’s law school, what could have been a peaceful protest turned into an act of verbal violence. It’s easier to stop people from crossing these boundaries when you’ve established boundaries.
Cal Thomas: Splitting the difference, or just splitting?
Today, the debate is about sports. Tomorrow it’s anyone’s guess when “off limits” will apply only to signs at a military base or construction site and nowhere else.
Clarence Page: Justice Clarence Thomas’ appearance of impropriety? We’ll be the judge
Whether his failure to file all of his disclosure statements resulted from bad legal advice or not, he is hardly the only person who needs to have a code of ethics to help end that confusion.
Major League Baseball’s revolution has just begun
Too often in recent years it felt like, when it came to strategy, baseball was a “solved problem.” Find pitchers who throw really hard and generate a lot of strikeouts, and find hitters who hit home runs even if they strike out a lot and can’t do much else. Things became too stagnant and predictable.
Andrew DeFilipp: It’s not nature, but profits that threaten Lake Auburn
If development proceeds, it could force Auburn’s hand and require an extremely expensive water filtration system on the dimes of the taxpayer; backing for private investment and fortune for only those shareholders.
Froma Harrop: Is it time to pity DeSantis?
Ron DeSantis seems to be fading under the technicolor lunacy of Donald Trump. That’s a hard act to compete with, especially when the Florida governor’s act is a watercolor version.