OUR OPINION: Energy efficiency cheapest, cleanest power available

Editorials

Published
March 10, 2013

OUR OPINION: Energy efficiency cheapest, cleanest power available

What if Maine could build a power plant that produced electricity at quarter of the rate home customers now pay?
Published
March 10, 2013

OUR OPINION: Good health care costs less than bad care

You don't have to cut corners to lower health care costs.
Published
March 10, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Beware illusions pushing stock prices to record highs

The stock market, in normal times a reliable proxy for an economy's health, reached record levels last week. And why not? Corporate profits are higher than ever. The housing market is springing back. Auto sales are on pace for the best year since 2007.
Published
March 8, 2013

OUR OPINION: Businesses can help students train for jobs

It used to be a simple division of labor. Schools taught the basics and employers trained their workers. Like many aspects of our economy, however, things aren't so simple anymore.
Published
March 7, 2013

OUR OPINION: Government is transparent, except when not

The people's right to know is an essential ingredient in a democracy. If people don't know what their government is up to, they cannot make informed judgments in the voting booth.

Published
March 7, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Australia-Japan whaling dispute heads to court

Japanese government has cited the eating of whales as justification for killing them, just months before the International Court of Justice in The Hague hears Australia's challenge to Tokyo's "scientific" whaling program.
Published
March 6, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Latest analysis derails opposition to Keystone

President Barack Obama began his second term with a promise to push harder on energy and climate change.
Published
March 6, 2013

OUR OPINION: Collins joins gun trafficking fight in Senate

It's good news that a bipartisan group of senators, including Maine's Susan Collins, are backing a bill that would step up the pressure on illegal gun trafficking. It would be bad news, however, if that's all Congress is willing to do.
Published
March 5, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Feds likely to tighten rules for painkillers

Has American medicine gotten too good at treating pain? The profession once took pain to be a positive sign of healing. As recently as 50 years ago, even patients recovering from surgery went without medicine to relieve the ache and discomfort. Today, 0To fight back, the federal government is expected to soon tighten the rules for prescribing a popular subset of painkillers, those containing the narcotic hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen (Vicodin is one of these) or with ibuprofen.
Published
March 4, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Ford brings some manufacturing back to US

Over the past six years, Ford's Engine Plant No. 1 in Brook Park, Ohio, has held a mirror to the health of the domestic auto industry.

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