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Editorials

Published
April 25, 2013

Airport delays: Sequestion at work

Nobody likes to wait in an airport line. No one wants his or her flight canceled. It's bad for business when people spend time sitting in airports when they should be at meetings. It's no fun to miss important family events.
Published
April 24, 2013

Congress needs to shore up our cyberdefenses — quickly

The House passed a new cybersecurity bill last week, and the accompanying report emphasizes what many corporate and government experts know only too well.
Published
April 24, 2013

System already exists to oversee group homes

Crime, mental illness and public safety all are hot-button issues. A bill before the Legislature touches on all three by requiring the state to notify municipalities before it opens group homes for people found not criminally responsible for violent acts.
Published
April 23, 2013

LePage trips, falls over line he shouldn’t cross

While there is still a dispute about what exactly was said to a group of unemployment hearing officers at a now-famous Blaine House lunch last month, two things are certain.
Published
April 22, 2013

More seniors want to keepworking — and need to

Celebrating the 65th anniversary of Israel, one cannot help but be struck by the incongruity of conflating an ancient people with a birthday befitting a baby boomer.

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Published
April 22, 2013

Are officials’ private lives as important as skills?

A major shift in politics seems to be under way. Elected officials and candidates for office are more often being judged not by their accomplishments or lack of accomplishments but by their private lives.
Published
April 22, 2013

Complying with court ruling on young killers

The U.S. Supreme Court threw a sensitive issue back to the states last week, and Nebraska is one of many states trying to deal with it.
Published
April 21, 2013

Boy Scouts float lame compromise on gay scouts

Since 1911, boys who have joined the Boy Scouts of America have taken this vow: "On my honor, I promise to do my duty to God and my country; to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight."
Published
April 20, 2013

Immigration bill strikes delicate political balance

It's no wonder it took so long. The bipartisan immigration bill introduced this week in the Senate is a hefty, voluminous achievement.
Published
April 19, 2013

Senate votes on guns thwart public will

So the Senate has decided that no federal response is needed to the massacre in Newtown -- none at all. No wonder President Barack Obama, standing with former Rep. Gabby Giffords and families of the Newtown victims in the Rose Garden, was visibly angry as he called Wednesday a "shameful day for Washington" and called out the gun lobby for lying about gun safety legislation.