USM Students Share Their Opinions on Campus Police Body Cameras Being Introduced to the University By: Chris Tiner, News Editor In February, the Editor-in-Chief of the Free Press Dakota Eddy reported on campus police announcing they are investing in new body camera technology. In that article, the discussion was around how this was proposed back…
Category: Legally Maine
Buffer zone protects patients and protesters
Portland’s new buffer zone ordinance is a lawful and efficient approach to protecting women’s rights to reproductive health care. Accounts of harassment and intimidation required intervention by the City Council through an ordinance restricting the space where anti-abortion activists can protest. Congress street in downtown Portland has become a virtual war zone in which patients’…
Boehner Undermines Democracy with Opposition to ENDA
Speaker Boehner’s intolerance of ENDA’s presence in the House unveils a weakness in democracy. Much work has been done not only around the state of Maine, but around the nation to reduce discrimination in the workplace. The recent passing of a controversial bill in the Senate is a pivotal step in the advancement of legislation…
Unregulated drug imports not worth it: Maine’s new drug import bill is too dangerous
A first-in-nation law that allows prescription drug imports will risk Mainers’ lives, as it puts the drugs beyond the reach of FDA regulations. Maine has become the first state in the nation to allow individuals to purchase prescription drugs abroad in a new law which passed in June without the signature of Governor LePage. The…