OUR OPINION: National park makes economic sense, studies find

Editorials

Published
February 17, 2013

OUR OPINION: National park makes economic sense, studies find

A pair of economic studies should change the debate about whether a national park makes sense for northern Maine.
Published
February 15, 2013

OUR OPINION: Public investment in shipping opens economic door

It's not too often when we see the governor of Maine and the mayor of Portland singing from the same hymn book, so when it happens we know there really must be something to celebrate.
Published
February 14, 2013

OUR OPINION: Full-time work shouldn’t mean life in poverty

President Barack Obama surprised the experts on Tuesday with a new plan to spur economic growth and close the widening income gap: increase the minimum wage.
Published
February 13, 2013

Traditionalist Pope Benedictbreaks tradition

In nearly eight years as pope, Benedict XVI embraced a traditionalist -- and to many critics, authoritarian -- view of both the papacy and of church teaching. So it's ironic that he will be remembered for his revolutionary decision to relinquish the Chair of St. Peter rather than die in office, the first such abdication in nearly 600 years.
Published
February 12, 2013

OUR OPINION: Criminals use, abuse private gun sale loophole

According to the National Rifle Association, background checks of gun buyers can never be universal because criminals will never submit to them.

Published
February 11, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Richard III deserves reburial full of pomp

The forensic dramas that have become so popular on our TV screens in recent years have whetted the public's appetite for this particularly morbid line in detective work, but the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park trumps any work of fiction. It ranks as one of the most dramatic archaeological discoveries of modern times.
Published
February 11, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Athletes who risk health in order to compete

The only person to win the Tour de France seven times in a row admits to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Published
February 11, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: She’s talking about a bubble gun, for Pete’s sake

Grown-ups sure are funny people. Funny ha ha, no. Just weird. They say things like they mean it and then they do something just the opposite.
Published
February 10, 2013

OUR OPINION: Passenger rail has a future in Maine, US

The riders on the nation's first high-speed bullet train are likely to travel California's central valley between Fresno and Bakersfield. It's not because these two farming communities are experiencing a traffic problem, or that tourists are dying to visit the Buck Owens' Crystal Palace Museum and Restaurant.
Published
February 10, 2013

OUR OPINION: Judicial confirmations shouldn’t be this hard

We wonder what the 12 Maine lawyers assembled to review candidates to fill the next vacancy on the U.S. District Court will say to those candidates.

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