Obama’s budget plan a daring bid for compromise

Editorials

Published
April 13, 2013

Obama’s budget plan a daring bid for compromise

The 2014 budget proposal unveiled by President Barack Obama on Wednesday represents a daring bid to break the gridlock over spending and revenue that has kept Washington in a perpetual state of crisis for the past few years.
Published
April 12, 2013

Base pill ruling on science, not morality

By this time next month, the morning-after pill -- which can help prevent pregnancy when taken after sexual intercourse -- could move out from behind pharmacy counters and onto the shelves of drugstores nationwide.
Published
April 9, 2013

Maybe we should pay by the pound to fly friendly skies

A story problem: Mary weighs 120 pounds and is traveling with a 12-pound baby, a 30-pound diaper bag and two suitcases with a combined weight of 80 pounds. Dick weighs 155 and hauls a 10-pound duffel. Bob weighs 280 and is dragging a 40-pound wheel-aboard suitcase. How much does each passenger pay for a 1,440-mile flight from Chicago to Phoenix?
Published
April 8, 2013

Abstinence-only classes waste of time, money

Two decades ago, conservatives in Congress undercut comprehensive sex education, which teaches teens how to avoid pregnancy and venereal diseases, and instead poured taxpayer money into abstinence-only classes that advocate shunning sex until marriage.
Published
April 8, 2013

Brain research funding a modest, welcome start

President Barack Obama officially announced his new brain research initiative last week, with a pledge to put $100 million in his 2014 budget to support work at three federal agencies.

Published
April 8, 2013

Rutgers coach should have been fired long ago

The evidence against Mike Rice was too damning, too vile, too extreme for him to spend one more day on the Rutgers University payroll.
Published
April 7, 2013

Unlink charter school funds from public schools

If the charter school movement is going to succeed in Maine, it will be as a supplement to traditional public schools, not as an enemy of them.
Published
April 7, 2013

Closing holes in gun laws good place to start

With all the debate on the best way to prevent gun violence, surprisingly, there is one area of common ground.
Published
April 6, 2013

Skills, not risks to health, should determine if person hired

The best way to hire productive employees is to look for people with qualifications, talent, honesty and commitment. Now, however, a small but growing number of employers are looking for something else as well: job applicants who don't smoke. As much as we despair of the death and damage caused by tobacco, this new employment criterion strikes us as a lamentable and unwarranted intrusion into applicants' private lives -- and one that should worry anyone in this country who has an elevated risk for any sort of injury or illness. In other words, most of us.
Published
April 5, 2013

Seniors lose if Meals on Wheels runs out of gas

Unless you're directly affected, it would be easy to conclude that predictions about the impact of the automatic spending cuts known as "sequestration" were exaggerated.

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