Chelsea Peters: Improving child welfare in Maine: National best practices are a great place to start

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Published
March 6, 2022

Chelsea Peters: Improving child welfare in Maine: National best practices are a great place to start

As we work to improve our child welfare system through legislative reform, let’s ensure that the children at the center of our child welfare cases are seen, heard and represented. Let’s guarantee them the right to legal counsel.
Published
March 6, 2022

Jonette Christian: Immigration and America’s racial reckoning

Immigration numbers have played a largely unrecognized role in forcing vulnerable groups to compete against each other, and Blacks have been especially harmed. The solution is simple: Congress should reduce the numbers. All workers, immigrant and native born, would benefit from tighter labor markets and higher wages.
Published
March 6, 2022

Cal Thomas: Biden’s unspectacular address

The opening part of the State of the Union address about Ukraine seems to have been tacked on to a speech that had already been written. The words sounded good — freedom over tyranny was one good line — and the threat to go after Russian oligarchs may have appealed to that other war Democrats love to fight (that would be class warfare) — but words are not the kind of weapons Ukraine needs right now.
Published
March 6, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: This has all the makings of a tragedy

I am a child of domestic violence, so believe me when I say: It doesn’t matter if the woman’s name is Kardashian or Jones, this is all quite real. And Kim Kardashian deserves what every woman in this situation deserves: empathy and regard.
Published
March 6, 2022

Austin Bay: A weaponized narrative: Russian oligarchs must choose between their money and Putin

The best way out of this stupid, murderous war — for Russians, for Ukrainians, the rest of the world, including greedy oligarchs — isn't more sanctions or more war. The way out for the oligarchs is a Kremlin coup toppling Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Published
March 6, 2022

Froma Harrop: The old normal gets new appreciation

The crisis in Ukraine further reminds us how unpredictable and unstable life can be, even for people like us. But it also shows how memories of a strong civic culture can keep people like us fighting to preserve it.
Published
March 5, 2022

Froma Harrop: Are Western democracies tough enough for 2022?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is stuck, humiliated and probably mentally ill. That makes for scary times ahead. Are Western democracies tough enough for the threats of 2022? So far, so good.
Published
March 5, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Crusty Yankees and pure democracy

Whatever your view of it, town meeting time often brings out a few national media types who tromp through the snow to a meeting somewhere in Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont, sit for a few minutes of debate about, say, buying radios for the fire company, shoot some film and file a story about crusty old New Englanders governing themselves.
Published
March 5, 2022

Rich Lowry: We need a $1 trillion defense budget

Russia's aggression underlines the potential of the U.S. having to fight simultaneous wars in Europe and Asia, to defend NATO and to stave off a China attack on Taiwan or elsewhere, when our forces currently may not be adequate to winning one fight.
Published
March 3, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Does Ukraine have courage enough to be a country worth fighting for?

At an exigent moment, when they were given a chance to vindicate that humanity, guardians of Ukraine’s border stomped it instead. Make no mistake: The hearts of all good people are with the citizens of Ukraine. They’ve shown beyond doubt that they have courage enough to fight for their country. But let them also have courage enough to be a country worth fighting for.

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