Biden seems to be summoning his inner Harry Truman and bringing back the third player. In assuring a stable and happy middle class, the market has a job to do, but so does government.
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Jennifer Hogan: Mainers don’t need 160% APR loans
These loans extract wealth and cause lasting damage to household financial security and on communities.
Justice Breyer should learn from Justice Ginsburg’s mistake — and retire now
Since 1961, we’ve had 32 years of Republican presidents and 28 with Democratic presidents, but those Republicans have appointed 15 justices and the Democrats just eight. If Breyer is followed by a justice in Barrett’s mold, the Supreme Court’s ideological balance would be further skewed.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: We keep hitting new lows
The barbarians are not at the gate; they’re in the living room with their feet up on the furniture. The Republican Party is an unsalvageable mess, manifestly unfit to govern and a clear and present danger to this country. So our only hope is to hold it at bay until a new — sane — center-right party can be erected in its place.
In ‘First Franco,’ Doug Rooks tells the story of a groundbreaking Mainer
Rumford’s Albert Beliveau Sr. became the first Franco American named to the Maine Supreme Court and one of the first Catholics to occupy the position.
James Parakilas: Collins should fight systemic racism in Congress by voting for DC statehood, voting rights
In her years in the Senate she has worked tirelessly to produce benefits in the lives and livelihoods of Mainers, but she has never shown courage in the defense of America’s ideals. Now is her chance.
Rich Lowry: Facebook’s speech policies are absurd
If Facebook just wanted to say that Trump is often noxious and dishonest in his social media postings, that’d be understandable. But this would put it in the inherently subjective and highly contentious business of deciding which politicians are worthy and truthful, and which are not.
Cal Thomas: Central Insanity Agency
The CIA has had problems in its past, but none as serious as this. If they continue to succumb to wokeness, the “I” in its acronym will stand for insanity.
Rev. Dr. Jodi Hayashida: Harm reduction saves lives
It is well past time for us to move past the death measure of Maine’s regressive policies and instead choose the critical and life-affirming practices of harm reduction. Harm reduction is a collection of evidence-based techniques rooted in a fundamental belief that every life is sacred and worthy of care. It is a decision to reframe the epidemic of substance-related deaths away from criminalization and toward public health.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Have your meat and eat it, too
We can eat as much beef as we want and help the environment at the same time. It’s all about how we raise the beef.