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Editorials

Published
May 12, 2013

OUR OPINION: Budget reform must come from our lawmakers

We have to hand it to Gov. Paul LePage. He may not always be right about the facts, but he tells you what he thinks.
Published
May 10, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Christie’s silence speaks to stigma of obesity

Between all our talk about the obesity epidemic as a public-health problem and our actual, often moralistic attitudes toward the overweight lies a distance much greater than any extra-large waistline.
Published
May 10, 2013

OUR OPINION: State’s plan for helping schools flawed at core

About a week since it released its controversial A-F grades of Maine public schools, the Department of Education has announced how it plans to aid the schools that it has marked out as having fallen behind.
Published
May 9, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Miracle in Cleveland for long-missing women

"Help me. ... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
Published
May 9, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Sex-crime cases must be untied from military

Any doubts that the U.S. military has been unable to address its own problems with sexual assault should be dispelled by a just-released Department of Defense survey.

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Published
May 8, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Reforms overdue for drug compounders

When a doctor sticks a needle in you, you expect that the drugs it carries won't be tainted. But, possibly owing to a strange gray area in federal law, thousands of patients last October got injections for back pain that contained highly dangerous fungal meningitis, and dozens of them died.
Published
May 8, 2013

OUR OPINION: Lewiston gets cold shoulder from governor

The visit of a sitting governor to his disaster-stricken hometown would seem to be the perfect time for him to connect with constituents in crisis.
Published
May 7, 2013

OUR OPINION: Maine has chance to pass sound, sensible gun limits

Federal law requires an instant background check for the buyer in every gun sale.
Published
May 7, 2013

OUR OPINION: Maine has food crisis, but not food shortage

Food is a basic need. Without it, we can't survive.
Published
May 6, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Obama, Congress should erase stain of Guantanamo

At his news conference Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a powerful plea for ending the humanitarian and diplomatic disaster created by the continued detention of more than 160 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, more than 100 of whom are engaged in a hunger strike that necessitated the dispatch of an emergency medical team. The problem is that Obama has contributed to the crisis by acquiescing in congressional obstruction of his promise to close the facility.