Sandy Butler, director of the School of Social Work at the University of Maine, argued that unemployment benefits extended during the pandemic are not delaying economic recovery in a Bangor Daily News column.
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Michael Socolow, University of Maine associate professor of communication and journalism and director of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, has a column published in the Boston Globe titled “How to Save This Summer’s Olympics.” Socolow argues that with rising COVID-19 rates in Japan, the solution to staging the Olympics is removing the in-person audience.
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A Forbes column aimed at providing a basic understanding of sustainability cited the University of Maine Office of Sustainability’s definition of the word. According to the office’s website, as cited in the column, “Sustainability is not just about renewable energy and energy efficiency … We must strive to achieve a sustainability state of mind that […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Tausif Sanzum Karim, a graduate student of communication at the University of of Maine, titled “What ‘Pose’ did for a queer person of color.”
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The Daily Bulldog published a column from David Fuller, a non-timber agriculture professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, titled “When to plant the veggie garden.”
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The Bangor Daily News published a column by Bryan Pittman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sociology, and Jason Clough, a 2021 UMaine sociology graduate, advocating for transformative social change to reduce crime and interaction with law enforcement.
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Michael Socolow, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, spoke with Salon about the New York Times’ op-ed page in a column about the newspaper’s decision to rename op-eds “guest essays” in the opinions section. “For many Times readers (and even employees), the page looks like a unified platform or singularly […]
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A Centralmaine.com column by Louise Rosen cited a 2019 University of Maine study of farmed oyster revenue in calling for increased attention and support for the film-making industry in Maine.
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Centralmaine.com printed an op-ed by Elizabeth Davis, a University of Maine political science student and drug policy research fellow, advocating for the passage of LD 967, an act that would make possession of scheduled drugs for personal use a civil offense.
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A Bangor Daily News column by Evie Clement, a communication and psychology student at the University of Maine, calls for supporting LD 967, which would shift the response to opioid use from punishment to supporting those who are addicted.
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