VIEW FROM AWAY: Debt ceiling inconvenient, but necessary

Editorials

Published
December 3, 2012

VIEW FROM AWAY: Debt ceiling inconvenient, but necessary

It would be wrenching for the country to be faced with another showdown over the federal debt ceiling. But the solution should not be, as Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner recently suggested, to dispense with the debt ceiling because it is an inconvenient impediment to ratcheting up the national debt.
Published
December 3, 2012

VIEW FROM AWAY: ‘Silent’ filibusters abuse hallowed tradition

Popular notions of the U.S. Senate filibuster, the practice of talking bills to death or delaying their passage, tend to come from film, such as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," or from legendary past examples.
Published
December 3, 2012

VIEW FROM AWAY: Exciting for private company to have Mars goal

It's exciting news that SpaceX, the private company that just sent a highly successful spaceship to dock with the International Space Station, wants to put a human on Mars in a dozen years.
Published
December 2, 2012

OUR OPINION: Mural, mural on the wall, let the voters make the call

Though those who are critical of Gov. Paul LePage's decision in 2011 to remove a specially commissioned mural from an anteroom at the offices of the Maine Department of Labor don't agree, the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston made the legally correct decision in saying the governor had the right to do what he did.
Published
December 2, 2012

OUR OPINION: Graduation rate something to cheer about

'We're No. 10! We're No. 10!" You may not hear that very often at football games, but it rang loud and proud in Augusta last week after the U.S. Department of Education released its tally of high school graduation rates for all 50 states.

Published
December 2, 2012

VIEW FROM AWAY: Israel entirely friendless in Middle East

The celebratory gunfire in Gaza that greeted the start of the Nov. 21 truce may have been in part to greet the end of the slaughter of the Israeli onslaught. This has seen at least 162 Palestinians die, the majority of them civilians, and in excess of 1,200 people injured. Some of these will die later and many more will have to live with crippling disabilities for the rest of their lives.
Published
December 1, 2012

Correction: Cap on drug treatments

Incorrect information appeared in a Nov. 27 editorial about a new law that caps treatment for drug addicts.
Published
November 30, 2012

OUR OPINION: Last time, it took a war to answer secession question

It seems a little hard to credit, but news reports this week said that nearly 1 million people from all over the nation have signed online petitions supporting their states' secession from the United States.
Published
November 29, 2012

OUR OPINION: New paperwork puts educators on the defensive

Let's take it as a given that teachers and school administrators must be able to intervene physically when students' actions become disruptive or dangerous to themselves or others.
Published
November 28, 2012

OUR OPINION: Energy report content reflects who paid for it

Gov. Paul LePage went on the air last Saturday with a radio address touting the findings of a study that claimed renewable energy would cost jobs and hurt Maine's economy.

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