OUR OPINION: Agent Orange ruling good news for some Maine vets

Editorials

Published
August 12, 2013

OUR OPINION: Agent Orange ruling good news for some Maine vets

Paul Bailey, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is gravely ill. Until last week, he wondered how his wife would be able to stay in their New Hampshire home after he dies of cancer.
Published
August 12, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Lifesaving HPV vaccination program lags

In Afghanistan, the Taliban has murdered United Nations health workers attempting to administer the polio vaccine in rural villages and has convinced villagers that the vaccine is a Western plot to infect Afghan children.
Published
August 9, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: It may not be much, but it’s a meal

A bologna sandwich. Celery sticks. Canned oranges and chocolate milk. It's hardly a feast, but don't tell that to the children for whom this meal makes all the difference.
Published
August 9, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Republicans might be in better mood after vacation

Is there a constituency for governing among House Republicans? That's what Speaker John Boehner needs to find out during the August recess.
Published
August 8, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: News business may need Bezos’ brand of e-magic

One can only hope that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc. and the new owner of The Washington Post, doesn't mean it when he says he won't be involved in the Post's day-to-day operations. This is precisely where fresh thinking is needed in the newspaper business.

Published
August 8, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: A-Rod saga highlights changing culture

Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has broken a raft of records over his 20 years in professional baseball. He batted in at least 100 runs in 14 seasons; his 10-year, $275 million contract was the largest ever in baseball; and, as of Monday, he has been given the most severe punishment ever for using performance-enhancing drugs, a 211-game suspension that, if upheld, will keep him off the field through all of next season. Twelve other players accepted 50-game suspensions, which will allow them to be eligible to play in this season's playoffs.
Published
August 7, 2013

OUR OPINION: Rail rules on right track, but still need work

It's been one month since a runaway Maine oil tanker train en route to New Brunswick derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town, costing nearly 50 people their lives.
Published
August 6, 2013

OUR OPINION: Housing-highway bill’s filibuster another black eye for Congress

Most of us try to clean off our desks before summer vacation. Not wanting to come back to a half-done to-do list, we finish all pending items on our agenda, then take off for some rest and relaxation.
Published
August 6, 2013

OUR OPINION: Education chief’s defense of friend imperils credibility

When Florida's commissioner of education resigned Thursday amidst a scandal over fixing the grades of a political donor's charter school, we expected some comment from Maine education officials.
Published
August 5, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Univision a more popular window on America

America’s consumer choices, voting trends and viewing habits help fill in the mosaic of this big economically, politically and socially diverse country.

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