The late Gov. Joe Brennan was a progressive champion

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The late Gov. Joe Brennan was a progressive champion

When the late Gov. Joe Brennan, who passed away this week at the age of 89, was first elected to the Maine legislature in 1965, the first bill he sponsored was to abolish the reprehensible practice of putting kids in jail for truancy. I don’t know if this was from his lived experience (he reportedly skipped school more than once to improve on his pool game) or from his innate ability to understand injustice. But, pushing juvenile justice reform …